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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Readings and Musings

posted by Mommy H.

I came across this quote by William Wilberforce in Real Christianity :

 "Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men...
In contrast, servile, base, and mercenary is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians.  They give no more than they dare withhold.  They abstain from nothing but what they dare not practice.  When you state to them the doubtful quality of any action, and the consequent obligation to refrain from it, they reply to you in the very spirit of Shylock, "they cannot find it in the bond."
  In short, they know Christianity only as a system of restraints.   It is robbed of every liberal and generous principle.  It is rendered almost unfit for the social relationships of life, and only suited to the gloomy walls of a cloister, in which they would confine it.
  But true Christians consider themselves as not satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude.  Accordingly, theirs is not the stinted return of a constrained obedience, but the large and liberal measure of voluntary service."

A debt of gratitude... and I have so much for which to be thankful.  Should not the love which He freely bestowed on me flow out in cataracts of loving service to his saints, from Him, to Him and for Him?

Where is your heart?

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