Sometime in December many people begin to consider a daily devotional reading book for the upcoming year. If you have not already selected a devotional for 2010 let me make a suggestion to you. The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare by William Gurnall.
William Gurnall was an English Puritan pastor and preacher from the 1600s. He wrote a large 3 volume work The Christian in Complete Armour on the subject of Spiritual Warfare. Gurnall's work is biblically rich and very pastoral, his applications of biblical truth to everyday life give evidence that the Puritans really did understand God and Christianity better than most of us today.
James Bell took Gurnall's great work and edited it into 365 daily readings and "translated" the 17th century English into modern vernacular. Bell not only maintained Gurnall's rich and vivid word pictures, but also maintained the beauty of puritan writing while making it more understandable for the modern reader.
Make no mistake, this is not a emotion driven, self centered work on spiritual warfare like many modern writings. Gurnall's work on Spiritual Warfare is filled with biblical truth and is focused on God. The reader will see not only the daily struggle but also the biblical message of addressing this struggle against our enemy, Satan. Here is an excerpt from today December 1 reading:
Hold On To The Power Of God
Another way to let God rescue you from despair is to remember how often He has proved your unbelief to be a false prophet. Has He not knocked at your door with inward comfort and outward deliverance after you had already put out the candle of hope and given up looking for Him? . . . Why then are you frightened again and again by your distrustful thoughts, which God has so often proved liars? Stop feeding your hopes on the corpses of slain fears! . . . David raises every saint's troubled hope: "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord" (Psa 31:24).
Gurnall fills each daily reading with these same vivid word pictures and biblical truth to encourage the reader in our daily struggle against sin and the attacks of the evil one. The Christian in Complete Armour:Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare is well worth the price of owning it and the time to read it every day. The Christan in Complete Armour is published in the US by Moody Press and is available from Amazon.com here.
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