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.
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.
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.
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