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Daily Light's Morning Reading
The Lord was my stay.—PSA. 18:18.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.—The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.—Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.—The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.—So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.—For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
By the grace of God I am what I am.
Jer. 3:23. -Psa. 18:2. -Isa. 12:6.Psa. 34:7,17. -Deut. 33:27. -Heb. 13:6. -Psa. 18:31,32.I Cor. 15:10.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
Romans 8:37
We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins. Paul thus rebukes us, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Take your sins to Christ’s cross, for the old man can only be crucified there: we are crucified with him. The only weapon to fight sin with is the spear which pierced the side of Jesus. To give an illustration—you want to overcome an angry temper; how do you go to work? It is very possible you have never tried the right way of going to Jesus with it. How did I get salvation? I came to Jesus just as I was, and I trusted him to save me. I must kill my angry temper in the same way. It is the only way in which I can ever kill it. I must go to the cross with it, and say to Jesus, “Lord, I trust thee to deliver me from it.” This is the only way to give it a death-blow. Are you covetous? Do you feel the world entangle you? You may struggle against this evil so long as you please, but if it be your besetting sin, you will never be delivered from it in any way but by the blood of Jesus. Take it to Christ. Tell him, “Lord, I have trusted thee, and thy name is Jesus, for thou dost save thy people from their sins: Lord, this is one of my sins; save me from it!” Ordinances are nothing without Christ as a means of mortification. Your prayers, and your repentances, and your tears—the whole of them put together—are worth nothing apart from him. “None but Jesus can do helpless sinners good;” or helpless saints either. You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Job 6
6. Job Speaks
Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
6
Then Job answered:
2
“O that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
4
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
5
Does the wild ass bray over its grass,
or the ox low over its fodder?
6
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?
7
My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are like food that is loathsome to me.
8
“O that I might have my request,
and that God would grant my desire;
9
that it would please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
10
This would be my consolation;
I would even exult in unrelenting pain;
for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11
What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should be patient?
12
Is my strength the strength of stones,
or is my flesh bronze?
13
In truth I have no help in me,
and any resource is driven from me.
14
“Those who withhold kindness from a friend
forsake the fear of the Almighty.
15
My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed,
like freshets that pass away,
16
that run dark with ice,
turbid with melting snow.
17
In time of heat they disappear;
when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18
The caravans turn aside from their course;
they go up into the waste, and perish.
19
The caravans of Tema look,
the travelers of Sheba hope.
20
They are disappointed because they were confident;
they come there and are confounded.
21
Such you have now become to me;
you see my calamity, and are afraid.
22
Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23
Or, ‘Save me from an opponent’s hand’?
Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?
24
“Teach me, and I will be silent;
make me understand how I have gone wrong.
25
How forceful are honest words!
But your reproof, what does it reprove?
26
Do you think that you can reprove words,
as if the speech of the desperate were wind?
27
You would even cast lots over the orphan,
and bargain over your friend.
28
“But now, be pleased to look at me;
for I will not lie to your face.
29
Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done.
Turn now, my vindication is at stake.
30
Is there any wrong on my tongue?
Cannot my taste discern calamity?
New Testament in Four Years - James 4:13-17
4. Submit Yourselves to God
Boasting about Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.”14Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.”16As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 83
83. Psalm 83
Psalm 83
Prayer for Judgment on Israel’s Foes
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1
O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2
Even now your enemies are in tumult;
those who hate you have raised their heads.
3
They lay crafty plans against your people;
they consult together against those you protect.
4
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5
They conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8
Assyria also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.Selah
9
Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,
10
who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12
who said, “Let us take the pastures of God
for our own possession.”
13
O my God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind.
14
As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15
so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane.
16
Fill their faces with shame,
so that they may seek your name, O Lord.
17
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace.
18
Let them know that you alone,
whose name is the Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth.