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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.—ROM. 6:11.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.—I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Because I live, ye shall live also.—I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God . . . For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
John 5:24. -Gal. 2:19,20.John 14:19. -John 10:28-30.Col. 3:1,3.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.”
Psalm 91:9
The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hill side, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of “Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!” They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God, his cloudy pillar was their roof-tree, and its flame by night their household fire. They must go onward from place to place, continually changing, never having time to settle, and to say, “Now we are secure; in this place we shall dwell.” “Yet,” says Moses, “though we are always changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place throughout all generations.” The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich today and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly today and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness today, to-morrow he may be distressed—but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If he loved me yesterday, he loves me today. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is “my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort.” I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Genesis 23
23. The Death of Sarah
Sarah’s Death and Burial
23
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this was the length of Sarah’s life.2And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.3Abraham rose up from beside his dead, and said to the Hittites,4“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”5The Hittites answered Abraham,6“Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold from you any burial ground for burying your dead.”7Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.8He said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron son of Zohar,9so that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place.”10Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,11“No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it; in the presence of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.13He said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “If you only will listen to me! I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”14Ephron answered Abraham,15“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”16Abraham agreed with Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
17 So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, passed18to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.20The field and the cave that is in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham’s possession as a burying place.
New Testament in Four Years - Romans 7:1-3
7. Struggling With Sin
An Analogy from Marriage
7
Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime?2Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.3Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 37:1-40
37. Psalm 37
Psalm 37
Exhortation to Patience and Trust
Of David.
1
Do not fret because of the wicked;
do not be envious of wrongdoers,
2
for they will soon fade like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.
3
Trust in the Lord, and do good;
so you will live in the land, and enjoy security.
4
Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6
He will make your vindication shine like the light,
and the justice of your cause like the noonday.
7
Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him;
do not fret over those who prosper in their way,
over those who carry out evil devices.
8
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath.
Do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9
For the wicked shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
10
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.
11
But the meek shall inherit the land,
and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
12
The wicked plot against the righteous,
and gnash their teeth at them;
13
but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that their day is coming.
14
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to kill those who walk uprightly;
15
their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
16
Better is a little that the righteous person has
than the abundance of many wicked.
17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
18
The Lord knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will abide forever;
19
they are not put to shame in evil times,
in the days of famine they have abundance.
20
But the wicked perish,
and the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures;
they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
21
The wicked borrow, and do not pay back,
but the righteous are generous and keep giving;
22
for those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the land,
but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
23
Our steps are made firm by the Lord,
when he delights in our way;
24
though we stumble, we shall not fall headlong,
for the Lord holds us by the hand.
25
I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.
26
They are ever giving liberally and lending,
and their children become a blessing.
27
Depart from evil, and do good;
so you shall abide forever.
28
For the Lord loves justice;
he will not forsake his faithful ones.
The righteous shall be kept safe forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
29
The righteous shall inherit the land,
and live in it forever.
30
The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom,
and their tongues speak justice.
31
The law of their God is in their hearts;
their steps do not slip.
32
The wicked watch for the righteous,
and seek to kill them.
33
The Lord will not abandon them to their power,
or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.
34
Wait for the Lord, and keep to his way,
and he will exalt you to inherit the land;
you will look on the destruction of the wicked.
35
I have seen the wicked oppressing,
and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
36
Again I passed by, and they were no more;
though I sought them, they could not be found.
37
Mark the blameless, and behold the upright,
for there is posterity for the peaceable.
38
But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;
the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.
39
The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
he is their refuge in the time of trouble.
40
The Lord helps them and rescues them;
he rescues them from the wicked, and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.