Contemplation

For my morning devotion, I always include at least three things: Bible reading and study, a Christian nonfiction book or commentary, and prayer. I have just begun reading 5 Things Christians Must Do by F. B. Meyer. I want to include a portion here. I think the thought-provoking, inspiring words speak for themselves.

In the soul of every man, in which the Holy Spirit has commenced His work, there are depths of yearning desire which cannot be satisfied from a merely intellectual standpoint. As in David's experience so in ours, both heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

The present decline in church attendance may be largely due to the failure of the pulpit to meet the demand of the human spirit for a more adequate presentation of the spiritual and eternal aspects of our Christian faith, and for a more powerful dynamic and a clearer analysis of the steps that lead through darkness unto God. 

...we may marvel, first at the extraordinary opportunity presented to us of becoming the sons and daughters of the Eternal God, and second, that any should treat such an opportunity with neglect. But that we, the children of a fallen race, should have the opportunity of becoming, in the most intimate sense, the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, invited to share in His glory - when we quietly consider it - becomes too great for words!

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