<Heroic Spiritual Venture>
Here is a very helpful quote from the Introduction to the Puritan prayers book, I have been quoting from.
“In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy,” says Wheaton College professor Leland Ryken. “For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.”
Robert Elmer, ed., Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019), 1.
- These words that life is "a venture" (a Heroic Spiritual Venture) and "a quest" (the quest for Spiritual and moral holiness) resonate with me. Even in these days sheltered at home, our life is to be spiritual venture and quest! May Christ give us his spiritual (and physical, emotional, mental) energy to pursue Him and what His purpose are in these days. I find we have days of strength and days of weakness; may Christ sustain us for the journey!