I've been slowly working my way through the book Spiritual Classics which is a compilation of selections from 53 different authors and I have been finding some great nuggets of spiritual wisdom. Here is a taste of Andre Louf...
"We stand now on the threshold of prayer. Our heart has been awakened. It sees Jesus, it hears His voice, it rejoices in His Word. That Word has been turned over and over in our heart. It has purified us, cleansed us, and we have grown familiar with it. Perhaps we are even beginning to resemble this Word. Now too, it can take root in our heart and bear fruit. Now it may even become the Word of God in our flesh.
So long as we ourselves were still intent on the Word of God in our heart, we had come no further than the prelude. There comes a moment when we yield up God's Word to the Spirit within us. Then it is that our heart gives birth to prayer. And then at last the Word of God has become truly ours. We ahve then discovered and realized our most profound, our true identity. And then the Name of Jesus has become our name also. and together with Jesus we may with one voice call God: Abba, Father!
...Now the Word has achieved its 'glorious course' (2 Thess. 3:1): it has gone out from God and been sown in the good soil of the heart. having now been chewed over and assimilated, it is generated in the heart, to the praise of god. It has taken root in us and is now bearing its fruit: we in our turn utter the Word and send it back to God. We have become Word; we are prayer."
God, may your word become flesh in us. May the name of Jesus become our name. May we become prayer.
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