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Daily Light's Evening Reading
Jehovah-shammah (The Lord is there.)—EZEK. 48:35.
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
I saw no temple: . . . for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.—Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.—Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.—There shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.
Rev. 21:3.Rev. 21:22,23.Psa. 17:15. -Psa. 73:25.Joel 3:20,21. -Zech. 2:10. -Rev. 22:3.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“I am the rose of Sharon.”
Song of Solomon 2:1
Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree. Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the fairest among ten thousand. He is the sun, and all others are the stars; the heavens and the day are dark in comparison with him, for the King in his beauty transcends all. “I am the rose of Sharon.” This was the best and rarest of roses. Jesus is not “the rose” alone, he is “the rose of Sharon,” just as he calls his righteousness “gold,” and then adds, “the gold of Ophir”—the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the loveliest. There is variety in his charms. The rose is delightful to the eye, and its scent is pleasant and refreshing; so each of the senses of the soul, whether it be the taste or feeling, the hearing, the sight, or the spiritual smell, finds appropriate gratification in Jesus. Even the recollection of his love is sweet. Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf from leaf, and lay by the leaves in the jar of memory, and you shall find each leaf fragrant long afterwards, filling the house with perfume. Christ satisfies the highest taste of the most educated spirit to the very full. The greatest amateur in perfumes is quite satisfied with the rose: and when the soul has arrived at her highest pitch of true taste, she shall still be content with Christ, nay, she shall be the better able to appreciate him. Heaven itself possesses nothing which excels the rose of Sharon. What emblem can fully set forth his beauty? Human speech and earth-born things fail to tell of him. Earth’s choicest charms commingled, feebly picture his abounding preciousness. Blessed rose, bloom in my heart forever!
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Job 14
14. Job Replies
14
“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,
2
comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.
3
Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?
4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.
5
Since their days are determined,
and the number of their months is known to you,
and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,
6
look away from them, and desist,
that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.
7
“For there is hope for a tree,
if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8
Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stump dies in the ground,
9
yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth branches like a young plant.
10
But mortals die, and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?
11
As waters fail from a lake,
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12
so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
or be roused out of their sleep.
13
O that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would conceal me until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14
If mortals die, will they live again?
All the days of my service I would wait
until my release should come.
15
You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
16
For then you would not number my steps,
you would not keep watch over my sin;
17
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
18
“But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and the rock is removed from its place;
19
the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of mortals.
20
You prevail forever against them, and they pass away;
you change their countenance, and send them away.
21
Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;
they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.
22
They feel only the pain of their own bodies,
and mourn only for themselves.”
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Peter 1:17-21
1. Praise to God for a Living Hope
17 If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.18You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.20He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.21Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 90
90. Psalm 90
BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)
Psalm 90
God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
2
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3
You turn us back to dust,
and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
4
For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past,
or like a watch in the night.
5
You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;
6
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.
7
For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8
You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9
For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end like a sigh.
10
The days of our life are seventy years,
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
11
Who considers the power of your anger?
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
12
So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart.
13
Turn, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
14
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15
Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us,
and as many years as we have seen evil.
16
Let your work be manifest to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and prosper for us the work of our hands—
O prosper the work of our hands!