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Daily Light's Morning Reading
My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.—LUKE 8:21.
Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren: saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.—In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.—Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.—Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.—My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.—Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in him.
Heb. 2:11,12. -Gal. 5:6. -John 15:14. -Luke. 11:28.Matt. 7:21. -John 4:34.I John 1:6. -I John 2:5.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams.”
Isaiah 33:21
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to his Church. Having God she has abundance. What can she ask for that he will not give her? What want can she mention which he will not supply? “In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things.” Want ye the bread of life? It drops like manna from the sky. Want ye refreshing streams? The rock follows you, and that Rock is Christ. If you suffer any want it is your own fault; if you are straitened you are not straitened in him, but in your own bowels. Broad rivers and streams also point to commerce. Our glorious Lord is to us a place of heavenly merchandise. Through our Redeemer we have commerce with the past; the wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the ancient days of election, the stores of eternity, all come to us down the broad stream of our gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the future. What galleys, laden to the water’s edge, come to us from the millennium! What visions we have of the days of heaven upon earth! Through our glorious Lord we have commerce with angels; communion with the bright spirits washed in blood, who sing before the throne; nay, better still, we have fellowship with the Infinite One. Broad rivers and streams are specially intended to set forth the idea of security. Rivers were of old a defence. Oh! beloved, what a defence is God to his Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he wishes he could turn the current, but fear not, for God abideth immutably the same. Satan may worry, but he cannot destroy us; no galley with oars shall invade our river, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Ezekiel 5
5. Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized
A Sword against Jerusalem
5
And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.2One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city, when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.3Then you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.4From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.
5 Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.6But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.7Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not followed my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you;8therefore thus says the Lord God: I, I myself, am coming against you; I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.9And because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.10Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.11Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations—therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.12One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13 My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy, when I spend my fury on them.14Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all that pass by.15You shall be a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken—16when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.17I will send famine and wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and bloodshed shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken.
New Testament in Four Years - Matthew 12:15-21
12. Lord of the Sabbath
God’s Chosen Servant
15 When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them,16and he ordered them not to make him known.17This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
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“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19
He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
20
He will not break a bruised reed
or quench a smoldering wick
until he brings justice to victory.
21
And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”
Psalm a Day - Psalm 107:10-32
107. Psalm 107
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Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
prisoners in misery and in irons,
11
for they had rebelled against the words of God,
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
12
Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor;
they fell down, with no one to help.
13
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;
14
he brought them out of darkness and gloom,
and broke their bonds asunder.
15
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wonderful works to humankind.
16
For he shatters the doors of bronze,
and cuts in two the bars of iron.
17
Some were sick through their sinful ways,
and because of their iniquities endured affliction;
18
they loathed any kind of food,
and they drew near to the gates of death.
19
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;
20
he sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from destruction.
21
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wonderful works to humankind.
22
And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices,
and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.
23
Some went down to the sea in ships,
doing business on the mighty waters;
24
they saw the deeds of the Lord,
his wondrous works in the deep.
25
For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.
26
They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;
their courage melted away in their calamity;
27
they reeled and staggered like drunkards,
and were at their wits’ end.
28
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out from their distress;
29
he made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
30
Then they were glad because they had quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
31
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wonderful works to humankind.
32
Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.