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Daily Light's Morning Reading

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.JOHN 14:27.

The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.—Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches. and knoweth not who shall gather them.—What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Martha, Martha, thou are careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.—I would have you without carefulness.

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.—The Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means.—The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

I John 2:17. -Psa. 39:6. -Rom. 6:21.Luke 10:41,42. -I Cor.7:32.John 16:33. -II Thes. 3:16. -Num. 6:24-26.

Spurgeon's Morning Reading

“He led them forth by the right way.”

Psalm 107:7

Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold, trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm; I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; today my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday, I could climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; today, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God’s plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith—they are waves that wash you further upon the rock—they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David’s words, so it might be said of you, “So he bringeth them to their desired haven.” By honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God’s plan; they are necessary parts of it. “We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom.” Learn, then, even to “count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.”

“O let my trembling soul be still,

And wait thy wise, thy holy will!

I cannot, Lord, thy purpose see,

Yet all is well since ruled by thee.”

Old Testament Chapter a Day - Leviticus 18

Leviticus 18

18. Unlawful Sexual Relations

Sexual Relations

18

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the Lord your God.3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.4My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God.5You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.

6 None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.7You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.8You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.9You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born abroad.10You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.11You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s flesh.14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your flesh; it is depravity.18And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

19 You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.20You shall not have sexual relations with your kinsman’s wife, and defile yourself with her.21You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.22You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.23You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.

24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.25Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.26But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among you27(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);28otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.29For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.30So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.

New Testament in Four Years - 1 Corinthians 7:12-16

1 Corinthians 7:12-16

7. Sexual Immorality and Marriage

12 To the rest I say—I and not the Lord—that if any believer has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.13And if any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.14For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.15But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. It is to peace that God has called you.16Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.

Psalm a Day - Psalm 107:1-9

Psalm 107:1-9

107. Psalm 107

BOOK V

(Psalms 107–150)

Psalm 107

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Many Troubles

1

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

for his steadfast love endures forever.

2

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

those he redeemed from trouble

3

and gathered in from the lands,

from the east and from the west,

from the north and from the south.

 

4

Some wandered in desert wastes,

finding no way to an inhabited town;

5

hungry and thirsty,

their soul fainted within them.

6

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

and he delivered them from their distress;

7

he led them by a straight way,

until they reached an inhabited town.

8

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,

for his wonderful works to humankind.

9

For he satisfies the thirsty,

and the hungry he fills with good things.

 

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