CQOD—Trench: He might have reared a palace at a word

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Trench: He might have reared a palace at a word

Meditation:

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

—Philippians 2:5-7 (NIV)

Quotation:

He might have reared a palace at a word,

Who sometimes had not where to lay his head:

Time was, and He who nourished crowds with bread

Would not one meal unto Himself afford:

Twelve legions girded with angelic sword

Were at his beck, the scorned and buffeted:

He healed another’s scratch, his own side bled,

Side, feet, and hands, with cruel piercings gored.

Oh wonderful the wonders left undone!

And scarce less wonderful than those He wrought;

Oh self-restraint, passing all human thought,

To have all power, and be as having none;

Oh self-denying Love, which felt alone

For needs of others, never for its own!

... Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886), Poems, London: Macmillan, 1874, p. 142 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:

Lord, empty me of all but Your Spirit.

See yesterday

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