September 27
Christ in you the hope of glory
Col. 1:27
Religion is not the simple fire escape you build in anticipation of possible danger outside your dwelling and leave there until trouble comes. You go to it some morning when a fire breaks out in your house, and the poor old thing that you built up there, and thought that you could use someday, is so rusty and broken, and the weather has so beaten upon it, and the sun so turned its hinges, that it will not work. That is the condition of a man who has built himself what seems a creed of faith, a trust in God in anticipation of the day when danger is to overtake him and has said to himself, I am safe, for I will take refuge in it then. But religion is the house in which we live; it is the table we sit; the fireside we draw near; The room that arches its graceful and familiar presence; it is the bed on which we lie and think of the past, and anticipate the future, and gather our refreshment.
Phillips Brooks
Hardman, Samuel G., and Dwight Lyman Moody. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour. Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997. Print.
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