Our Heavenly Father and God has given us this promise: I will give my laws into their mind, and in their heart will I write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Now God's promises are solemn covenant engagements, and sure of fulfillment, unless we willfully cast them from us. The love of God, then, and of his holy will, and a willing, steadfast, hearty obedience to all His commandments is the mark and token of a true Christian. Let each of us often enquire within ourselves: Is it so with me? Do I carefully and honestly seek by prayer, by much watchfulness, over myself, my feelings, my temptations, my calls of duty, that it may be so? Do I keep the ear of my heart open to the whisperings of conscience enlightened by the word of God, and quickened by the Holy Spirit? Do I get forward, as one who is under God's teaching, will, and dealings, will not fail to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ? Am I ruling my life, not by maxims of human reason, nor by the likings of flesh and blood, nor by the customs of others, and the spirit and ways of the world around me, but by God's revealed precepts and truths? Our minds and hearts are, too, like those of unruly and self-willed children, who want much restraint, and that it should neither be cast aside, nor much relaxed. If we would have God take and keep up His abode in us, and be to us our God, and we His people, let us fear God out of love, and not seem to love Him from fear.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp