One Day Closer: A Convicting & Compelling Quote on Our Daily Practice as Christians

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

In light of Romans 6's call to mortify our sinful nature and live alive to God in Christ Jesus, let us with confidence delight in the fact that we are no longer slaves to sin but slaves to righteousness. Here is a wonderful quote from Richard Alliene-a Christian from a previous generation I commend to you: 

"Be sure to get God, and the things of God next to your heart
when you awake. God, the World and Satan with his suggestions
knocks to get first in. Open first to God, if Satan or the world
hath possession, out them speedily, and let your meditation on
God be sweet. Spend your first thoughts on him, and your eternal
condition, whose thou shall be at the opening of the graves, and
the rising of the Dead. Think also you are one night nearer
heaven or hell; resolve to do something towards your salvation
that day in mortifying some sin, and getting nearer to Christ." -Richard Alliene in The Christian's Daily Practice of Piety