Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
A walk in the woods with Jonathan Edwards
Rev. Edwards spent the summer with his parents in East Windsor and visited Bolton, then a small crossroads hamlet, in June of 1723. In his diary he describes his spiritual reconciliation:
"...there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from any thing I ever experienced before. I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was, and how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven, and be as it were swallowed up in him for ever!"The appearance of every thing was altered. God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky, in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water, and all natureƒI spent most of my time in thinking of divine things, often walking alone in the woods, and solitary places, for meditation, soliloquy, and prayer, and converse with God."
"...there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from any thing I ever experienced before. I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was, and how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven, and be as it were swallowed up in him for ever!"The appearance of every thing was altered. God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky, in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water, and all natureƒI spent most of my time in thinking of divine things, often walking alone in the woods, and solitary places, for meditation, soliloquy, and prayer, and converse with God."
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
How Far? pt.2
The other night I was in Auburn checking out a new church plant and having dinner with a friend. Over dinner my friend and I were talking about creating the lifestyle of time with Jesus in a chaotic day. He was telling me of his days when he was doing mission work in Sudan. A normal day for him consisted of taking prayer walks, reading scripture, mission work, then more reading before he went to sleep. He started talking about the simpleness of those days and of how nourishing it was to his relationship with Christ. Jonathan Edwards, a well know pastor in the 1700's was also known for retiring from his office to spend the afternoon hours strolling in the woods and talking to Jesus. So the question we have to ask ourselves is this - Are we controlling our schedules, or are the schedules controlling us?
"for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me.
the fountain of living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water" -Jer. 2:13
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