Terrific Tuesday Quiet Time

Yes, I like alliteration! :) Anyways... God was wonderfully kind and really blessed my devotions this morning. I thought I'd share it!

The Gift of Gifts
"O Source of all good, what shall I render to thee for the gifts of gifts. thine own dear Son, begotten, not created, my redeemer, proxy, surety, substitue, his self-emptying incomprehensible, his infinity of love beyond the the heart's grasp. Herein is wonder of wonders; he came below to raise me above, was born like me that I might become like him. Herein is love; when I cannot rise to him he draws near on wings of grace, to raise me to himself. Herein is power; when Deity and humanity were infintely apart he united them in indossoluble unity, the uncreate and the created. Herein is wisdom; when I ws undone, with no will to return to him, and no intellect to devise recovery, he came, God-incarnate, to save me to the uttermost, as man to die my death, to shed satisfying blood on my behalf, to work out a perfect righteousness for me. O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds, and enlarge my mind; let me hear good tidings of great joy, and hearing, believe, rejouice, praise adore, my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose, my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father; place me with ox, ass camel, goat, to look with them upon my redeemer's face, and in him account myself delivered from sin; let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart, embrace him with undying faith, exulting that he is mine and I am his. In him thou hast given me so much that heaven can give no more."

The Valley of Vision, A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions. © The Banner of Truth Trust 1975. Reprinted in 2007.

Romans 8:1-11

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."