Five Minutes a Day with Luther - 12-18-2009
Five Minutes with Luther
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December 18
Psalm 119:97-98 O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all
the day. Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For
they are ever mine.
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The chief lesson and study in Divinity is well and rightly to
learn to know Christ, for in it He is very graciously and kindly
pictured to us. Therefore St. Peter says: Grow up in the
knowledge of Christ. And Christ himself also teaches that we
should learn to know Him only out of the Scriptures, when He
says: "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them
you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me."
We ought not to measure, censure, and understand the Scriptures
according to our own natural sense and reason, but we ought to
meditate in them diligently with prayer, and to search after
Christ there. The devil and temptations also give us
opportunity somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures by
experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we
would never understand anything thereof; no, not even though we
diligently read and heard them. The Holy Ghost must be the only
Master and Tutor to teach us therein, and let youth and scholars
not be ashamed to learn from this Tutor. When I find myself in
temptation, then I quickly lay hold of and fasten onto some text
in the Bible which Christ Jesus lays before me; namely, that He
died for me, from which I possess and receive comfort.
Divine Instructor, gracious Lord!
Be Thou forever near;
Teach me to love Thy sacred Word,
And view my Savior there.
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Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
To be Lutheran is to be Christian -- and Vice Versa!
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