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Daily Light's Evening Reading
The Lord strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.—PSA. 41:3.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them.—He whom thou lovest is sick.—My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.—I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
We faint not; . . . though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
In him we live, and move, and have our being.—He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.—The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Isa. 63:9. -John 11:3. -II Cor. 12:9. -Phi. 4:13.II Cor. 4:16.Acts 17:28. -Isa. 40:29-31. -Deut. 33:27.
Spurgeon's Evening Reading
“Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.”
Psalm 51:14
In this solemn confession, it is pleasing to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, nor speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its true name, bloodguiltiness. He did not actually kill the husband of Bathsheba; but still it was planned in David’s heart that Uriah should be slain, and he was before the Lord his murderer. Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. What God sees them to be, that do you labour to feel them to be; and with all openness of heart acknowledge their real character. Observe, that David was evidently oppressed with the heinousness of his sin. It is easy to use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning. The fifty-first Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit. Let us seek after the like brokenness of heart; for however excellent our words may be, if our heart is not conscious of the hell-deservingness of sin, we cannot expect to find forgiveness.
Our text has in it an earnest prayer—it is addressed to the God of salvation. It is his prerogative to forgive; it is his very name and office to save those who seek his face. Better still, the text calls him the God of my salvation. Yes, blessed be his name, while I am yet going to him through Jesus’ blood, I can rejoice in the God of my salvation.
The psalmist ends with a commendable vow: if God will deliver him he will sing—nay, more, he will “sing aloud.” Who can sing in any other style of such a mercy as this! But note the subject of the song—“Thy righteousness.” We must sing of the finished work of a precious Saviour; and he who knows most of forgiving love will sing the loudest.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Genesis 12
12. The Call of Abram
20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had. 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” 18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? 17 But the LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. 14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. 13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. 10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
Abram in Egypt
8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring Or seed I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.” Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing. Or be seen as blessed 1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
New Testament in Four Years - Mark 6:1-6
6. Teachings and Miracles
1 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Greek Joses, a variant of Joseph Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 70
70. Psalm 70
1 Hasten, O God, to save me;come quickly, LORD, to help me.
2 May those who want to take my life
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
3 May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
turn back because of their shame.
4 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say,
“The LORD is great!”
5 But as for me, I am poor and needy;
come quickly to me, O God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
LORD, do not delay.
