Devotional Feelings
No doubt, devotional feelings were habitual in the hearts of our first parents. No doubt, they sent up, more formally, their morning and evening prayers; but more time is needed to daw off the thoughts from visible thigns, and to concentrate them on the great invisible Giver of existence. Short snatches of time ar enot sufficient to perform this noblest of all duties in a proper manner. A whole day, at certain periods, was needed, so that there might be time for the contemplation of divine things, and for the full and free exercises of devotion.
- A.A. Alexander
Wonderfully Made
John Flavel
"I am wonderfully made"; the original word' is 'very full.' The Vulgate renders it, "painted as with a needle," i.e., richly embroidered with nerves and veins. O, the skillful workmanship that is in that one part, the eye! How has it forced some to acknowledge God upon the examination of it! Providence, when it went about this work, had its model or pattern before it, according to which it molded every part, "In thy book all my members were written". Have you an integral perfection and fullness of members? It is because He wrote them all in His book, or painted your body according to that exact model which He drew of you in His own gracious purpose before you had a being.
- John Flavel
Awake & Arise
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork; day unto day utters speech, night unto night shows knowledge." Every time the sun rises up you, it really calls you to turn; as if it should say, "What do I travel and compass the world for, but to declare to men the glory of their Maker, and to light them to do his work? and do I still find you doing the work of sin, and sleeping out your life in negligence? Awake you that sleep and arise from the dead and Christ shall give you light." "The night is spent, the day is at hand: it is now high time to awake out of sleep: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strike and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof."
- Richard Baxter
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