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Daily Light's Evening Reading
A new name.—REV. 2:17.
The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.—Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.—They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.—Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints. Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.
Acts 11:26. -II Tim. 2:19. -Gal. 5:24. -I Cor. 6:20.Gal. 6:14,15.Eph. 5:1-3,8.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“The Lord is King forever and ever.”
Psalm 10:16
Jesus Christ is no despotic claimant of divine right, but he is really and truly the Lord’s anointed! “It hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.” God hath given to him all power and all authority. As the Son of man, he is now head over all things to his church, and he reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of life and death at his girdle. Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the popular will, and certainly our Lord Jesus Christ is such in his church. If it could be put to the vote whether he should be King in the church, every believing heart would crown him. O that we could crown him more gloriously than we do! We would count no expense to be wasted that could glorify Christ. Suffering would be pleasure, and loss would be gain, if thereby we could surround his brow with brighter crowns, and make him more glorious in the eyes of men and angels. Yes, he shall reign. Long live the King! All hail to thee, King Jesus! Go forth, ye virgin souls who love your Lord, bow at his feet, strew his way with the lilies of your love, and the roses of your gratitude: “Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all.” Moreover, our Lord Jesus is King in Zion by right of conquest: he has taken and carried by storm the hearts of his people, and has slain their enemies who held them in cruel bondage. In the Red Sea of his own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins: shall he not be King in Jeshurun? He has delivered us from the iron yoke and heavy curse of the law: shall not the Liberator be crowned? We are his portion, whom he has taken out of the hand of the Amorite with his sword and with his bow: who shall snatch his conquest from his hand? All hail, King Jesus! we gladly own thy gentle sway! Rule in our hearts forever, thou lovely Prince of Peace.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Job 10
10. Job Replies
Job: I Loathe My Life
10
“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
3
Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4
Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as humans see?
5
Are your days like the days of mortals,
or your years like human years,
6
that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7
although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
8
Your hands fashioned and made me;
and now you turn and destroy me.
9
Remember that you fashioned me like clay;
and will you turn me to dust again?
10
Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11
You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12
You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
13
Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.
14
If I sin, you watch me,
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15
If I am wicked, woe to me!
If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look upon my affliction.
16
Bold as a lion you hunt me;
you repeat your exploits against me.
17
You renew your witnesses against me,
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.
18
“Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19
and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20
Are not the days of my life few?
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
21
before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22
the land of gloom and chaos,
where light is like darkness.”
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Peter 1:1-5
1. Praise to God for a Living Hope
Salutation
1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,2who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood:
May grace and peace be yours in abundance.
A Living Hope
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,5who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 87
87. Psalm 87
Psalm 87
The Joy of Living in Zion
Of the Korahites. A Psalm. A Song.
1
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2
the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3
Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God.Selah
4
Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
Philistia too, and Tyre, with Ethiopia—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5
And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in it”;
for the Most High himself will establish it.
6
The Lord records, as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.”Selah
7
Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”