glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the fullness of the world compared to the fullness of Christ is nothing It is 1:17 PM Thursday afternoon here in Western Michigan. It is cold gray damp gloomy day. It would be a good day to sit by a fireplace being warmed by a log fire I got up this morning around 6:25 AM. I was laying bed having a bad dream and heard Carol moving around upstairs, so I got up to greet another day of my transitory life. When I came upstairs Carol had just made a fresh pot of coffee and made a peanut butter toast. I had a normal morning so I won't go into great boring details. All my mornings follow the same script. I mainly spent the morning writing in my paper diary and reading from these two books-'The Science of Sacred Theology' Complete in One Volume by Emmanuel Doronzo, O.M.I. and 'The Happiness of Enjoying And Making A True And Speedy Used of Christ' by Alexander Groose. I stopped reading my books around 11 o'clock AM because my mind was wandering. I have been sitting dozing and reading from a book titled, 'The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert' Edited And Translated By Francis Steegmuller. So has gone my day thus far. Last night Carol was gone to a Woman's Bible Study and got home around 8:15 PM. When she got home I was watching some TV show on PBS. Carol went to bed early and read late into the night from 'The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert'. Now it is 1:29 PM and Carol is out for a walk around our neighborhood. I am cold and tired and plan to spend the day drifting. I am not in the mood to leave the house. Hopefully it will be sunny the next couple of days. "Oh man, do not dishonor that nature of yours which Christ has so honored. Do not debase that which Christ has exalted. Do not unite and join yourself in communion with the Devil and the dung and dross of the world, Christ having taken man's nature into the unity of His person as a pledge of their future exaltation. Do not bow down your soul and exalt your lust, as Solomon saw servants on horseback and princes walking on foot (Eccl. 10:7). But, as Christ has honored you, so maintain your dignity and spiritual glory by purging yourself from sin, as living spring purges itself from pollution. Do this by contending mightily against all the opposition of grace, as a soldier in the day of battle; and by being industrious in the works of holiness, as he who labors for great wages. A Christian's labor is his honor. Maintain your dignity and spiritual honor also by shining as the sun with light; by being full as the tree with fruit; and by abounding as the sea with waters. As the nature which Christ has assumed abides unchangeably united to the person of the Son, so abide with Christ (John 15:7) in attendance on His ordinances, in faith in His promises, in love to His truth, and in obedience to His precepts. As the assumed nature is ascended from the earth to heaven, so raise your thoughts and affections from the things below to the things above (Col. 3:2). Ascend continually by meditation, by faith, and by love and longing for the things which are spiritual. As the assumed nature has no subsistence but in the person of the Son, so may you have no dependence upon anything but on Christ alone. Let Him be all in all (Ps. 73:15; Eph. 1:23). And as the assumed nature is filled with the fullness of the Godhead, so labor more and more to be filled with the fullness of all grace and holiness. And so you will maintain that honor to which Christ has exalted your nature." pg.82,83 'A True And Speedy Used Of Christ' by Alexander Grosse 1:52 p.m. - 2023-09-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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