Good morning! 📖🌻☕
For the sake of time this morning, I’m going to post this link without much “fanfare”. We are reading the little book of Philemon today (look up his story in a good commentary), practicing our memory passage, and writing Psalm 40:11-12 as we focus on God’s faithfulness when we are so downcast that we feel our heart is failing.
Streams in the Desert is one I want to go back and reread on the topic, “Strong Composure”–“Those who are unjustly accused, and causelessly ill-treated know what tremendous strength is necessary to keep silence to God.” Tozer writes an excellent piece about “The Feasibility of Change”–“Change is one of the ingredients of Christianity”–and Spurgeon encourages us to be “A Constant Witness”.
Proverbs 12:25 is our prayer scripture today, emphasizing the importance of “a good word”–we should have great resources whereby we can receive a good word, and also we should be dispensing a good word to those with heavy, stooping hearts. We follow this theme of our influence with others as we consider a 12th century prayer which was set to music in 1912:
O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled, as to console; To be understood, as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Listen: https://anchor.fm/thequietrestpodcast/episodes/Quiet-Time-Corner-February-10–2022-Ep–269-e1e74re