Day 284, Morning
Today’s morning meditation is available below in audio and script formats. The audio version is also available for free download on the player.
Reading
“Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one.”
—Meister Eckhart
Quiet
As your day begins, spend a few moments in silence and stillness.
Commentary
In order to say that there is no one in our deeper consciousness, we have to go there, knock on the door, and find that no one is at home. Until he has made that journey, knocked on the door, and heard a voice saying “There is no one here,” no one should call himself an atheist. “Agnostic” is more correct.
Of those who tell me they are atheists, I ask, “Don’t you believe in yourself?”
Their answer is, “Of course.”
“Then,” I say, “you believe in God.”
When we use terms like “God” or “Lord” it is not referring to someone “out there.” We are invoking someone who is inside us all the time, who is nearer to us than our body, dearer to us than our life. (WLB)
Podcast Feeds
Abbreviations
(BC) The Belgic Confession
(CAC) The Center For Action & Contemplation
(CD) The Canons of Dort
(CIB) Church In Bethesda Prayers
(DZ) Donna Z.
(HC) The Heidelberg Catechism
(IO) Inward Outward
(MAO) Michael A. O’Sullivan
(NT) The New Testament
(OT) The Old Testament
(RP) Ryan Phipps
(TAO) The Tao Te Ching
(WC) The Westminster Confession
(WLB) Words To Live By
(WLC) The Westminster Larger Catechism
(WSC) The Westminster Shorter Catechism