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Daily Light's Morning Reading
By love serve one another.—GAL. 5:13.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.—Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.—Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.—Be kindly affectioned one to another in brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.—Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
We . . . that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Gal. 6:1,2.Jas. 5:19,20. -I Pet. 1:22. -Rom. 13:8. -Rom. 12:10. -I Pet. 5:5.Rom. 15:1.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”
Revelation 3:4
We may understand this to refer to justification. “They shall walk in white;” that is, they shall enjoy a constant sense of their own justification by faith; they shall understand that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to them, that they have all been washed and made whiter than the newly-fallen snow.
Again, it refers to joy and gladness: for white robes were holiday dresses among the Jews. They who have not defiled their garments shall have their faces always bright; they shall understand what Solomon meant when he said “Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. Let thy garments be always white, for God hath accepted thy works.” He who is accepted of God shall wear white garments of joy and gladness, while he walks in sweet communion with the Lord Jesus. Whence so many doubts, so much misery, and mourning? It is because so many believers defile their garments with sin and error, and hence they lose the joy of their salvation, and the comfortable fellowship of the Lord Jesus, they do not here below walk in white.
The promise also refers to walking in white before the throne of God. Those who have not defiled their garments here shall most certainly walk in white up yonder, where the white-robed hosts sing perpetual hallelujahs to the Most High. They shall possess joys inconceivable, happiness beyond a dream, bliss which imagination knoweth not, blessedness which even the stretch of desire hath not reached. The “undefiled in the way” shall have all this—not of merit, nor of works, but of grace. They shall walk with Christ in white, for he has made them “worthy.” In his sweet company they shall drink of the living fountains of waters.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Ezekiel 19
19. Lament for Israel's Princes
Israel Degraded
19
As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,2and say:
What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
rearing her cubs.
3
She raised up one of her cubs;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured humans.
4
The nations sounded an alarm against him;
he was caught in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
5
When she saw that she was thwarted,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6
He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured people.
7
And he ravaged their strongholds,
and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
at the sound of his roaring.
8
The nations set upon him
from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
he was caught in their pit.
9
With hooks they put him in a cage,
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
on the mountains of Israel.
10
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard
transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
from abundant water.
11
Its strongest stem became
a ruler’s scepter;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.
12
But it was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off,
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.
13
Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
into a dry and thirsty land.
14
And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.
New Testament in Four Years - Matthew 13:44-46
13. Parables of Jesus
Three Parables
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls;46on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 118:15-29
118. Psalm 118
15
There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly;
16
the right hand of the Lord is exalted;
the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.”
17
I shall not die, but I shall live,
and recount the deeds of the Lord.
18
The Lord has punished me severely,
but he did not give me over to death.
19
Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.
20
This is the gate of the Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
21
I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
22
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
23
This is the Lord’s doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
24
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
25
Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!
O Lord, we beseech you, give us success!
26
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
27
The Lord is God,
and he has given us light.
Bind the festal procession with branches,
up to the horns of the altar.
28
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God, I will extol you.
29
O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever.