Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 12-12-2009

[Five Minutes with Luther]

FIVE MINUTES A DAY WITH LUTHER

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December 12

Psalm 119:111,118 I have inherited Thy testimonies forever, For
they are the joy of my heart. . . . Thou hast rejected all
those who wander from Thy statutes, For their deceitfulness is
useless.

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I have grounded my preaching upon the literal Word; he that
pleases may follow me, he that will not follow may stay. I call
upon St. Peter, St. Paul, Moses, and all the saints, to say
whether they ever fundamentally comprehended one single Word of
God, without studying it over and over and over again. The
Psalm says: His understanding is infinite. The saints, indeed,
know God's Word, and can talk about it, but the practice is
another matter; in that we shall ever remain students. Here a
fine analogy may be used: it is as with a sphere or globe,
which, lying upon a table, touches it only with one point, yet
it is the whole table which supports the globe. Though I am an
old doctor of divinity, to this day I have not gotten beyond the
children̓s learning � the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and
the Lord's Prayer. I do not understand these so well as I
should, though I study them daily. If I thoroughly appreciated
these first words of the Lord̓s Prayer, "Our Father, who
art in heaven," and really believed that God, who made heaven
and earth, and all creatures, and has all things in His hand, is
my Father, then I would certainly conclude that I also am a lord
of heaven and earth, and that all the angels are my attendants,
given unto me by my Heavenly Father, to keep me in the path,
lest unawares I knock my foot against a stone.

Thy Word is everlasting truth:
How pure is every page!
That holy Book shall guide our youth,
And well support our age.

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Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
It isn't whether we win or lose, it is "Do we stand faithfully?"

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