Sweet Bitterness

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch8:
How to Effect This Second Purification
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 8
I do admit that sometimes blogging these walks gets heavy for me. The conviction of my own short-comings sometimes is magnified and extremely overwhelming. Because of that it is easy for me to not feel ready to post on a given [...]

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Bilbo’s Lament

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch7:
The Second Purification from All Sinful Affections
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah7
How the affections of things we know have hold of us! We acknowledge the defeat of bondage, the weight of conviction and pain of God’s correction yet we still long after and desire earnestly the deceitful pleasures of this Hell bound [...]

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Rejoicing in Hell

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch6:
The First Purification, Mainly From Mortal Sin
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 6

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the [...]

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Rushing into Spiritual Peril

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch5: The First Step Must Be Purifying the Soul
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 5
The people of God sometimes rush into spiritual peril, but not for lack of instruction, direction or warning for God has made that clear. They run into spiritual peril refusing instruction to prevent sin, refusing correction to repent [...]

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Need of a Guide

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch4: The Need of a Guide
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah4
Heb 12:1 “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set [...]

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Return!

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt1 Ch3:
Devotion is Suitable to Every Vocation and Profession
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 3
I don’t have to look far in my own life to find areas of spiritual harlotry. Indeed adultery is rampant in our culture and in our churches. It is nothing more than a manifestation of how we do [...]

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See the Word of the Lord!

Introduction to the Devout Life Pt 1 Ch 2 The Nature and Excellence of Devotion
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 2
Ro 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
Over the last year I experienced the ultimate depth of despair. [...]

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Yeah, But…

Introduction to the Devout Life Part 1 Chapter 1 – What True Devotion Is
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 1
True and false religion are not always so easily seen. Isaiah addressed it in the fasts, James in defining pure and undefiled religion. God has opened up Himself to us through His Holy Spirit and yet with relationship well [...]

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