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

Reading for January 14

Carpe Diem

by Dave Quintana - Servants of the Word

"Seize the day!" What a great challenge. What a great way to greet the dawning of a new day. Seize the day, each day, everyday, while it is today. Robin Williams, as a boarding school teacher in the movie "Dead Poet's Society", welcomes the new recruits into the great hall. The display cabinets are filled with photos and awards of those that have gone before them. He tells the new arrivals to look to the photos, and to listen … and then he walks up behind them whispering "carpe … carpe diem … carpe diem!" My sentiments exactly. May we look into the eyes and lives of those that have gone before us and may they whisper to us and shout to us, "Carpe diem"! Seize the day!"

Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress. Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. 1 Tim 4:11-16 RSV

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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