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Daily Light's Evening Reading
I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.—GEN. 17:1.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him.
Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.—We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
These words spake Jesus, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.
Phi. 3:12-14.Gen. 5:24.II Pet. 3:18. -II Cor. 3:18.John 17:1,15,23.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“He humbled himself.”
Philippians 2:8
Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of him. See the Master taking a towel and washing his disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst not be proud! Is not this sentence the compendium of his biography, “He humbled himself”? Was he not on earth always stripping off first one robe of honour and then another, till, naked, he was fastened to the cross, and there did he not empty out his inmost self, pouring out his life-blood, giving up for all of us, till they laid him penniless in a borrowed grave? How low was our dear Redeemer brought! How then can we be proud? Stand at the foot of the cross, and count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed; see the thorn-crown; mark his scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned rills; see hands and feet given up to the rough iron, and his whole self to mockery and scorn; see the bitterness, and the pangs, and the throes of inward grief, showing themselves in his outward frame; hear the thrilling shriek, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” And if you do not lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it: if you are not humbled in the presence of Jesus, you do not know him. You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s only begotten. Think of that, and as Jesus stooped for you, bow yourself in lowliness at his feet. A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt. May the Lord bring us in contemplation to Calvary, then our position will no longer be that of the pompous man of pride, but we shall take the humble place of one who loves much because much has been forgiven him. Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into practice.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Proverbs 5
5. Warning Against Adultery
Warning against Impurity and Infidelity
5
My child, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
2
so that you may hold on to prudence,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
3
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey,
and her speech is smoother than oil;
4
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
5
Her feet go down to death;
her steps follow the path to Sheol.
6
She does not keep straight to the path of life;
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
7
And now, my child, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8
Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house;
9
or you will give your honor to others,
and your years to the merciless,
10
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors will go to the house of an alien;
11
and at the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12
and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
13
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14
Now I am at the point of utter ruin
in the public assembly.”
15
Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16
Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
17
Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for sharing with strangers.
18
Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19
a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
May her breasts satisfy you at all times;
may you be intoxicated always by her love.
20
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
21
For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord,
and he examines all their paths.
22
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
23
They die for lack of discipline,
and because of their great folly they are lost.
New Testament in Four Years - 1 John 2:7-11
2. Warning Against Antichrists
A New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.8Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.9Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.10Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling.11But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 114
114. Psalm 114
Psalm 114
God’s Wonders at the Exodus
1
When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
2
Judah became God’s sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
3
The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.
4
The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
5
Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6
O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.
