the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"Walk in the Spirit." - Galatians 5:16.
Let the Spirit have the control of all your movements. Do this thing, let alone that, adopt this habit, forsake that, speak this word, dismiss that, go, stay, as the Spirit shall choose. It is certainly a marvellous invention of God that the Spirit should come down from heaven, enter into these satanized constitutions of ours, and undertake to exhibit a divine life upon the earth through the instrumentality of anything so utterly intractable as these members, these hearts, these darkened understandings. It seems like expecting that some mud-boat shall mount into the skies, and wheel itself in beauty along the clouds.
He that walketh in the Spirit, will be very shy of mere impulses. He will cultivate a calm collectedness of soul, will keep himself in a listening attitude, that he may ever hear the still small voice of the Spirit. How wonderful that this mighty subjugation of his nature, should be brought about by the agency of a faint whisper that the least commotion renders inaudible! "What all the physical forces of the world would have failed to accomplish, is brought about by a gentle mysterious whisper in the depth of one’s nature. The world sees the surprising result, and is all bewildered at the absence of a sensible motive power.
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