RULES FOR DAILY LIFE

Devotional Classics

EXCERPTS FROM A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE

RULES FOR DAILY LIFE

By William Law

Devotion is not prayer-neither not public-but union with God - daily living seeking Him so His love fills us and works through us.

The command to have a faith which governs the ordinary actions of our lives is to be found in almost every verse of Scripture. Our blessed Savior and his Apostles were very    intent on giving us teachings that relate to daily life.

They teach us: to renounce the world and be different in our attitudes and ways of life; to renounce all its goods, to fear none of its evils, to reject its joys, and have no value for its happiness; to be as newborn babes who are born into a new state of things; to live as pilgrims in spiritual watching, in holy fear, and heavenly aspiring after another life; to take up our cross daily, to deny ourselves, to profess the         blessedness of mourning, to seek the blessedness of poverty of spirit; to forsake the pride and vanity of riches, to take no thought for the morrow, to live in the profoundest state of humility, to rejoice in worldly sufferings; to reject the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; to bear injuries, to forgive and bless our enemies and to love all  people as God loves them; to give up our whole hearts and affections to God and to strive to enter through the straight gate into a life of eternal glory.