Comments on: The Quiet Time: My Failure http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/ steve mccoy is my Bud Abbott Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:11:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joe Thorn http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-17354 Joe Thorn Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:32:57 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-17354 Brooke, in my case once I realize that I have moved in motive from delight to duty I repent and return. For me the hard part is recognizing the shift, or degradation, in my motive, not the repenting. I want to meet with God. We may not always want to read our Bibles, but we should always want to meet with God (unless we are running). I think your question comes down to the work of examining and keeping the heart, and I think the best ground for that work to happen in is private worship itself. So, stay in the discipline and press on. If one does not want to even meet with God for such times of communion, than make that time of communion a time of honest confession of sin and seeking God for the grace necessary to see it all in the right light. The next post deals with our excuses for not having a quiet time and offers helpful tips for getting on track. Brooke, in my case once I realize that I have moved in motive from delight to duty I repent and return. For me the hard part is recognizing the shift, or degradation, in my motive, not the repenting. I want to meet with God. We may not always want to read our Bibles, but we should always want to meet with God (unless we are running). I think your question comes down to the work of examining and keeping the heart, and I think the best ground for that work to happen in is private worship itself. So, stay in the discipline and press on. If one does not want to even meet with God for such times of communion, than make that time of communion a time of honest confession of sin and seeking God for the grace necessary to see it all in the right light.

The next post deals with our excuses for not having a quiet time and offers helpful tips for getting on track.

]]> By: Brooke http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-17352 Brooke Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:10:51 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-17352 So, what do you do when it is habit and duty? How do you make it out of love when you just have no desire other than duty? So, what do you do when it is habit and duty? How do you make it out of love when you just have no desire other than duty?

]]> By: Joe Thorn http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12396 Joe Thorn Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:27:22 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12396 Yes. I think that is the best place for God to speak to us and change our minds, if we have not already repented of such thoughts. Yes. I think that is the best place for God to speak to us and change our minds, if we have not already repented of such thoughts.

]]> By: Josh Kidwell http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12395 Josh Kidwell Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:22:25 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12395 Joe do you think its important to push through on those days when you realize you have bad motives? Like you said its easy to relegate this to the realm of an item to check off but I also can't think of a better attitude adjustment. But it IS easy to become disgusted with yourself and just pass. Three good points man. Keep it up. Josh "...the word of God is not bound." --2 Timothy 2:9 Joe do you think its important to push through on those days when you realize you have bad motives? Like you said its easy to relegate this to the realm of an item to check off but I also can’t think of a better attitude adjustment. But it IS easy to become disgusted with yourself and just pass.

Three good points man. Keep it up.

Josh
“…the word of God is not bound.”
–2 Timothy 2:9

]]> By: MRB http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12379 MRB Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:13:34 +0000 http://www.joethorn.net/2006/12/05/the-quiet-time-my-failure/#comment-12379 Thanks Joey for your complete honesty! You have encouraged me to continue to seek God because I love Him not because I feel I have to. May your week continue with God's blessings! Your sister, MRB Thanks Joey for your complete honesty! You have encouraged me to continue to seek God because I love Him not because I feel I have to.

May your week continue with God’s blessings!

Your sister, MRB

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