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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Robertson: dare to be alone

Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888
Meditation:
[Elijah] “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
[The LORD:] “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.”
—1 Kings 19:14,18 (NIV)

Quotation:
There is a cowardice in this age which is not Christian. We shrink from the consequences of truth. We look round and cling dependently. We ask what men will think; what others will say—whether they will not stare in astonishment. Perhaps they will; but he who is calculating that, will accomplish nothing in this life. The Father—the Father which is with us and in us—what does He think? God’s work cannot be done without a spirit of independence. A man is got some way in the Christian life when he has learned to say humbly and yet majestically, “I dare to be alone.”
... Frederick W. Robertson (1816-1853), Sermons, v. I, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1861, v. 1, p.238 (see the book)
See also 1 Kings 19:14,18; Rom. 8:28; 11:3-5; 1 Tim. 4:12; 2 Tim. 2:15

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, grant me your assurance in my calling.
 
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