6 Aug 2014

Scripture

The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments
endures forever.

Observation

My procrastination with accepting this is rooted in my fear

Application

Do as Pastor Will suggested Kill the fear and replace it with Faith

Prayer

Almighty God in Heaven take the words I type here and let me hear them as in read it learn in LIVE IT

C.S. Lewis Daily

If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean
‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they
were married’, then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true,
and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that
excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite,
your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not
mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense—love as distinct from ‘being
in love’—is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will
and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages)
the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this
love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as
you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this
love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’
with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this
quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the
engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.

5.Aug.2014

C.S. Lewis Daily

TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On whether we dare hope that dying is like having a
tooth extracted; on purgatory; and yet more on forgiveness and the feeling of
being forgiven.

7 July 1959

. . . You seem to have had a very nasty experience. I can see why you describe
it as ‘looking into the face of death’: but who knows whether that face, when
we really look at it, will be at all like that? Let us hope better things. I
had a tooth out the other day, and came away wondering whether we dare hope
that the moment of death may be very like that delicious moment when one
realises that the tooth is really out and a voice says ‘Rinse your mouth out
with this.’ ‘This’ of course will be Purgatory. . . .

You surely don’t mean ‘feeling that we are not worthy to be forgiven’? For of
course we aren’t. Forgiveness by its nature is for the unworthy. You mean
‘Feeling that we are not forgiven.’ I have known that. I ‘believed’
theoretically in the divine forgiveness for years before it really came home
to me. It is a wonderful moment when it does.

Scripture

Psalm 119:130

Access to your words gives light, giving simple folk understanding.

Observation

Keep it Simple Stupid

Application

Am I a fan a believer in theory but with no outward appearance or change of heart?

Prayer

Lord God of heaven soften this hardened soul lead my not into temptation but provide your holy spirit as a moral compass and guide to convict me when I stray

4Aug2014

Today
Scripture

Jeremiah 33:2-3

Common English Bible
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The LORD proclaims, the LORD who made the earth, who formed and established
it, whose name is the LORD: Call to me and I will answer and reveal to you
wondrous secrets that you haven’t known.


Obervastion
Application

I am trulely calling on God or am I still the center of my universe

Application
Just do it one day one step at a time in constant prayer

Prayer
God Almighty God in Heaven be welcome in my hearth and mind lead me comfort me still my mind


C.S. Lewis Daily

On love

I will never laugh at anyone for grieving over a loved beast. I think God
wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less. We love
everything in one way too much (i.e., at the expense of our love for Him), but
in another way we love every- thing too little.

No person, animal, flower, or even pebble has ever been loved too much—i.e.,
more than every one of God’s works deserves.

Song of Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtj-G1gKnD8

1 August 2014

Daily Devotions

Scripture

Psalm 119:114

Common English Bible
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You are my shelter and my shield— I wait for your promise.

Observation

Am I truly reading learning and living the word of God?

Application

This daily devotion is no longer an option

Prayer

God Almighty Father in Heaven thank you for my life please take this life

and make it yours all for you and for your glory take my life and make it yours

C.S. Lewis Daily

The idea that ‘being in love’ is the only reason for remaining married really
leaves no room for marriage as a contract or promise at all. If love is the
whole thing, then the promise can add nothing; and if it adds nothing, then it
should not be made. The curious thing is that lovers themselves, while they
remain really in love, know this better than those who talk about love. As
Chesterton pointed out, those who are in love have a natural inclination to
bind themselves by promises. Love songs all over the world are full of vows of
eternal constancy. The Christian law is not forcing upon the passion of love
something which is foreign to that passion’s own nature: it is demanding that
lovers should take seriously something which their passion of itself impels
them to do.

And, of course, the promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love,
to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if
I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about
actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as
well promise never to have a headache or always to feel hungry.