Thu, Mar 30th - 8:00AM
who are you really?
CharityAnd now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:13 We begin to notice, besides our particular sinful acts, our sinfulness; begin to be alarmed not only about what we do, but about what we are. This may sound rather difficult, so I will try to make it clear from my own case. When I come to my evening prayers and try to reckon up the sins of the day, nine times out of ten the most obvious one is some sin against charity; I have sulked or snapped or sneered or snubbed or stormed. And the excuse that immediately springs to my mind is that the provocation was so sudden and unexpected; I was caught off my guard, I had not time to collect myself. Now that may be an extenuating circumstance as regards those particular acts: they would obviously be worse if they had been deliberate and premeditated. On the other hand, surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light. Lord, let me always be prepared, that I might show charity in every circumstance, no matter how sudden. Amen. ~ C.S. Lewis, from “Mere Christianity” We gotta Pray Chaplain Lee http://ThoughtsFromGod.com
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Wed, Jan 18th - 8:37PM
A prayer to pray
Let me to-day do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world’s vast store,
And may I be so favoured as to make
Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more.
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed
Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;
Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,
Or sin by silence when I should defend.
However meager be my worldly wealth,
Let me give something that shall aid my kind –
A word of courage, or a thought of health,
Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.
Let me to-night look back across the span
‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say –
Because of some good act to beast or man –
“The world is better that I lived today.”
Amen. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let's Pray,
Chaplain Lee
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Fri, Nov 18th - 10:04AM
True Repentance
True repentance comes from love. We are sorry, not because we will be punished, but because we love God and feel remorse that we have offended Him. True repentance — involves a change in our heart.
We might give in to temptation, but it is against our will. If we sin, we do so in sorrow.
If our hearts are truly contrite, Jesus promises that He will provide forgiveness for our sins. We can be righteous before God, despite our actions, if we really learn to repent and try to reform.
Repentance is not the baleful threat that many people think it is; it is filled with joy and hope.
It’s a miracle! Lord God, let me always repent of my sins with a contrite heart. Amen.
~ Mason Barge
Editor, Daily Prayer
We gotta Pray, Chaplain Lee
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Sun, Sep 25th - 9:14AM
Kindness can be misleading
But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
~ 1 John 13:17
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
For about a hundred years we have so concentrated on one of the virtues—“kindness” or mercy—that most of us do not feel anything except kindness to be really good or anything but cruelty to be really bad.
Such lopsided ethical developments are not uncommon, and other ages too have had their pet virtues and curious insensibilities. And if one virtue must be cultivated at the expense of all the rest, none has a higher claim than mercy. . . .
The real trouble is that “kindness” is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that “his heart’s in the right place” and “he wouldn’t hurt a fly,” though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature.
We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.
If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbour’s welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty.
Amen.
~ C. S. Lewis, from “The Problem of Pain”
We gotta pray,
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Sun, Jan 17th - 9:00PM
John 3:16 The reason why!
John 3:16 The first 50 times I read John 3:16, I saw salvation. That was a salvation verse for sure. then it changed. From; John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
To simply, "for God so loved." That was it. That was the entire verse. For God so loved. Period. That was the reason. The reason for everything. All of it. That was the reason for Jesus Christ. That was the reason for the human race. Blue skys, little ducks and kittens.
As I realized that for God so loved was the reason for Me, my wife, our kids and grand kids. For grumpy neighbors and bitchy co-workers. See if God had not, - so loved, They wouldn't be grumpy or bitchy, because we nor they would even exist. for God so loved, That is why!
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