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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.—MATT. 5:48.
I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.—Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.—Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.—Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.—Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.—Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Gen. 17:1. -Lev. 20:26.I Cor. 6:20.Col. 2:l0. -Tit. 2:14. –II Pet. 3:14.Psa. 119:1. –Jas.1:25. -Psa. 139:23,24.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“In the world ye shall have tribulation.”
John 16:33
Art thou asking the reason of this, believer? Look upward to thy heavenly Father, and behold him pure and holy. Dost thou know that thou art one day to be like him? Wilt thou easily be conformed to his image? Wilt thou not require much refining in the furnace of affliction to purify thee? Will it be an easy thing to get rid of thy corruptions, and make thee perfect even as thy Father which is in heaven is perfect? Next, Christian, turn thine eye downward. Dost thou know what foes thou hast beneath thy feet? Thou wast once a servant of Satan, and no king will willingly lose his subjects. Dost thou think that Satan will let thee alone? No, he will be always at thee, for he “goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” Expect trouble, therefore, Christian, when thou lookest beneath thee. Then look around thee. Where art thou? Thou art in an enemy’s country, a stranger and a sojourner. The world is not thy friend. If it be, then thou art not God’s friend, for he who is the friend of the world is the enemy of God. Be assured that thou shalt find foe-men everywhere. When thou sleepest, think that thou art resting on the battlefield; when thou walkest, suspect an ambush in every hedge. As mosquitoes are said to bite strangers more than natives, so will the trials of earth be sharpest to you. Lastly, look within thee, into thine own heart and observe what is there. Sin and self are still within. Ah! if thou hadst no devil to tempt thee, no enemies to fight thee, and no world to ensnare thee, thou wouldst still find in thyself evil enough to be a sore trouble to thee, for “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” Expect trouble then, but despond not on account of it, for God is with thee to help and to strengthen thee. He hath said, “I will be with thee in trouble; I will deliver thee and honour thee.”
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Job 16
16. Job Replies
Job Reaffirms His Innocence
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Then Job answered:
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“I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
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Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
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I also could talk as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you.
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I could encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
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“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
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Surely now God has worn me out;
he has made desolate all my company.
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And he has shriveled me up,
which is a witness against me;
my leanness has risen up against me,
and it testifies to my face.
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He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me;
he has gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10
They have gaped at me with their mouths;
they have struck me insolently on the cheek;
they mass themselves together against me.
11
God gives me up to the ungodly,
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12
I was at ease, and he broke me in two;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;
13
his archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys, and shows no mercy;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
14
He bursts upon me again and again;
he rushes at me like a warrior.
15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
and have laid my strength in the dust.
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My face is red with weeping,
and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
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though there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
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“O earth, do not cover my blood;
let my outcry find no resting place.
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Even now, in fact, my witness is in heaven,
and he that vouches for me is on high.
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My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
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that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God,
as one does for a neighbor.
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For when a few years have come,
I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
New Testament in Four Years - 1 Peter 2:1-3
2. Be Holy
The Living Stone and a Chosen People
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Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.2Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 92
92. Psalm 92
Psalm 92
Thanksgiving for Vindication
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath Day.
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It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
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to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
and your faithfulness by night,
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to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
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For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
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How great are your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep!
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The dullard cannot know,
the stupid cannot understand this:
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though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,
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but you, O Lord, are on high forever.
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For your enemies, O Lord,
for your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.
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But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
you have poured over me fresh oil.
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My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
12
The righteous flourish like the palm tree,
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13
They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
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In old age they still produce fruit;
they are always green and full of sap,
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showing that the Lord is upright;
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.