Loving and Serving His Word - Daily Readings for Inspiration and Growth

Reading for February 20

The Veil of the Self-life

by Dave Quintana - Servants of the Word

A.W. Tozer writes about all the "self-sins" (self-concern, self-centredness, self-pity, etc.) that form a veil when we think more of ourselves than of the Lord and others. In this season, may we open ourselves to the Lord and allow our lives to pass through the winnowing fork that is in his hands to separate the wheat from the chaff. And though we can easily say we are sinful, how often we are embarrassed into quiet denial by our sin, and struggle to be honest with the Lord and others (and even ourselves!). Indeed self-knowledge is a blessed, but painful thing. May the Lord give us grace to see ourselves as the people we really are, that we might become the people he intends us to truly be. And as the veil of the self-life grows thinner, may we recognize that we are greater than we have yet become (fyi—that insightful last line is plagiarized … from Mufasa in Lion King!).

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Heb 4:12-13 ESV

Daily Meds from the Q Source
by Dave Quintana, published by Tabor House, 2012

Dave Quintana's daily meditations and Bible readings to stir our minds and kindle our hearts in 2013. He explores themes important to all who search to be wise men and women in the Lord, and provides a wealth of personal experience from living and ministering in Central America, Asia, Europe, and the United States. Expect to be challenged. Expect to be inspired. Expect to meet the living and loving God. 

Dave Quintana is an elder of the Servants of the Word, a missionary brotherhood of men living single for the Lord.

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