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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Stand fast in the Lord.—PHI. 4:1.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever.—The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back into perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.—If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed.—He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.—Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.—Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.—He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.
Job 23:11.Psa. 37:28. -Psa. 121:7.Heb. 10:38,39. -I John 2:19.John 8:31. -Matt. 24:13. -I Cor. 16:13. -Rev. 3:11. -Rev. 3:5.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“I know that my Redeemer liveth.”
Job 19:25
The marrow of Job’s comfort lies in that little word “My”—“My Redeemer,” and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of a living Christ. We must get a property in him before we can enjoy him. What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars in Peru, and beg their bread in California. It is gold in my purse which will satisfy my necessities, by purchasing the bread I need. So a Redeemer who does not redeem me, an avenger who will never stand up for my blood, of what avail were such? Rest not content until by faith you can say “Yes, I cast myself upon my living Lord; and he is mine.” It may be you hold him with a feeble hand; you half think it presumption to say, “He lives as my Redeemer;” yet, remember if you have but faith as a grain of mustard seed, that little faith entitles you to say it. But there is also another word here, expressive of Job’s strong confidence, “I know.” To say, “I hope so, I trust so” is comfortable; and there are thousands in the fold of Jesus who hardly ever get much further. But to reach the essence of consolation you must say, “I know.” Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow. Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled with the gall of death; but if I know that Jesus lives for me, then darkness is not dark: even the night is light about me. Surely if Job, in those ages before the coming and advent of Christ, could say, “I know,” we should not speak less positively. God forbid that our positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Job 4
4. Eliphaz Speaks
Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned
4
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended?
But who can keep from speaking?
3
See, you have instructed many;
you have strengthened the weak hands.
4
Your words have supported those who were stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6
Is not your fear of God your confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7
“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
8
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.
9
By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10
The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
12
“Now a word came stealing to me,
my ear received the whisper of it.
13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night,
when deep sleep falls on mortals,
14
dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
15
A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh bristled.
16
It stood still,
but I could not discern its appearance.
A form was before my eyes;
there was silence, then I heard a voice:
17
‘Can mortals be righteous before God?
Can human beings be pure before their Maker?
18
Even in his servants he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;
19
how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth.
20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed;
they perish forever without any regarding it.
21
Their tent-cord is plucked up within them,
and they die devoid of wisdom.’
New Testament in Four Years - James 4:1-6
4. Submit Yourselves to God
Friendship with the World
4
Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?2You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.4Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.5Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, “God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?6But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
Psalm a Day - Psalm 81
81. Psalm 81
Psalm 81
God’s Appeal to Stubborn Israel
To the leader: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.
1
Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2
Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our festal day.
4
For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5
He made it a decree in Joseph,
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a voice I had not known:
6
“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
7
In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah
8
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9
There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10
I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11
“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
13
O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their foes.
15
Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
and their doom would last forever.
16
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”