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Today's Devotional

The imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God—1 Peter 3:4 (NASB).

In order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—Colossians 1:22 (NASB).

 

            Thy sinless mind in us reveal,
                        Thy spirit’s plenitude impart!
            Till all my spotless life shall tell
                        The abundance of a loving heart.

            —Charles Wesley.

 

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature. It seemed to me it brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness, and ravishment to the soul; and that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers, that is all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed; enjoying a sweet calm, and the gently vivifying beams of the sun. The soul of a true Christian appeared like such a little white flower, as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory, rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly in the midst of other flowers round about, all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun. —Jonathan Edwards. 

About the author and the source

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a New England Puritan pastor, scientist, and theologian. Mary Wilder Tileston (19th century) included this meditation by him in Daily Strength for Daily Needs, one of several devotional books she compiled.