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Daily Light's Evening Reading
Distributing to the necessity of saints.—ROM. 12:13.
David said, Is there yet any that is left . . . of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.—Whosoever shall give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.—God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
II Sam. 9:1.Matt. 25:34-36,40. -Matt. 10:42.Heb. 13:16. -Heb. 6:10.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“When he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mark 8:38
If we have been partakers with Jesus in his shame, we shall be sharers with him in the lustre which shall surround him when he appears again in glory. Art thou, beloved one, with Christ Jesus? Does a vital union knit thee to him? Then thou art today with him in his shame; thou hast taken up his cross, and gone with him without the camp bearing his reproach; thou shalt doubtless be with him when the cross is exchanged for the crown. But judge thyself this evening; for if thou art not with him in the regeneration, neither shalt thou be with him when he shall come in his glory. If thou start back from the black side of communion, thou shalt not understand its bright, its happy period, when the King shall come, and all his holy angels with him. What! are angels with him? And yet he took not up angels—he took up the seed of Abraham. Are the holy angels with him? Come, my soul, if thou art indeed his own beloved, thou canst not be far from him. If his friends and his neighbours are called together to see his glory, what thinkest thou if thou art married to him? Shalt thou be distant? Though it be a day of judgment, yet thou canst not be far from that heart which, having admitted angels into intimacy, has admitted thee into union. Has he not said to thee, O my soul, “I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness?” Have not his own lips said it, “I am married unto thee, and my delight is in thee?” If the angels, who are but friends and neighbours, shall be with him, it is abundantly certain that his own beloved Hephzibah, in whom is all his delight, shall be near to him, and sit at his right hand. Here is a morning star of hope for thee, of such exceeding brilliance, that it may well light up the darkest and most desolate experience.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Exodus 1
1. The Israelites Oppressed
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These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.5The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.6Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation.7But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
The Israelites Are Oppressed
8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.9He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.13The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites,14and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,16“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.”17But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?”19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”20So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.21And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.”
New Testament in Four Years - Romans 11:11-16
11. The Remnant of Israel
The Salvation of the Gentiles
11 So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.12Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry14in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them.15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead!16If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 63
63. Psalm 63
Psalm 63
Comfort and Assurance in God’s Presence
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
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O God, you are my God, I seek you,
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
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So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.
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Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
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So I will bless you as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands and call on your name.
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My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast,
and my mouth praises you with joyful lips
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when I think of you on my bed,
and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
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for you have been my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.
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My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.
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But those who seek to destroy my life
shall go down into the depths of the earth;
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they shall be given over to the power of the sword,
they shall be prey for jackals.
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But the king shall rejoice in God;
all who swear by him shall exult,
for the mouths of liars will be stopped.