CQOD—Faber: There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

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Monday, January 1, 2024

Faber: There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus

Meditation:

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

—2 Corinthians 11:3 (KJV)

Quotation:

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,

Like the wideness of the sea;

There’s a kindness in His justice

Which is more than liberty.

If our love were but more simple,

We should take Him at His word;

And our lives would be all sunshine

In the sweetness of our Lord.

... Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber, Part 4, Northampton, Mass.: Bridgman and Childs, 1867, p. 54-55 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:

Lord, teach me simple love.

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