Day 4 - Wednesday | Daily Devotions | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour|

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 August 7

Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race set before us, looking unto Jesus.

Heb. 12:1, 2

As you sit here, think of anything that you are doing that is wrong, of any habit of your life, of your self-indulgence, or of that great, pervasive habit of your life that makes you a creature of the present instead of the eternities, a creature of the material earth instead of the glorious skies. Ask yourself of any habit that belongs to your own personal life and bring it face to face with Jesus Christ.

Phillips Brooks


 Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).


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