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

Reading for July 24

Teresa of Avila

by Dave Quintana - Servants of the Word

Known as one of the Spanish mystics, there is much to learn from Teresa. She was a woman of deep encounter with God, a woman touched profoundly by and even, as she describes it, "wounded" by the love of God. This "fire within" is incurable she says, as "the very cautery that causes it, cures it, and by curing it, causes it. As often as the cautery of love touches the wound of love, it causes a deeper wound of love, and thus the more it wounds, the more it cures and heals. The more wounded the lover, the healthier he is". How all this works, I'm still grappling with—but she's definitely on to something! Ponder it a bit, and please, let me know if you think you get it figured out! Profound stuff.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. 1Jn 4:7-10 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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