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Daily Light's Morning Reading
Walk in love.—EPH. 5:2.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.—Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.—Love covereth all sins.
When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.—Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again.—Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.—Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrar-wise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.—If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.—Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
John 13:34. -I Pet. 4:8. -Prov. 10:12.Mark 11:25. -Luke 6:35. -Prov. 24:17. -I Pet. 3:9. -Rom. 12:18. -Eph. 4:32.I John 3:18.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.”
Psalm 73:22
Remember this is the confession of the man after God’s own heart; and in telling us his inner life, he writes, “So foolish was I, and ignorant.” The word “foolish,” here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language. David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, “I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked,” which shows that the folly he intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus “foolish,” and adds a word which is to give intensity to it; “so foolish was I.” How foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly, a folly which was not to be excused by frailty, but to be condemned because of its perverseness and wilful ignorance, for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the ungodly, forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. And are we better than David that we should call ourselves wise! Do we profess that we have attained perfection, or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our wilfulness out of us? Ah, this were pride indeed! If David was foolish, how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves! Look back, believer: think of your doubting God when he has been so faithful to you—think of your foolish outcry of “Not so, my Father,” when he crossed his hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times when you have read his providences in the dark, misinterpreted his dispensations, and groaned out, “All these things are against me,” when they are all working together for your good! Think how often you have chosen sin because of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasure was a root of bitterness to you! Surely if we know our own heart we must plead guilty to the indictment of a sinful folly; and conscious of this “foolishness,” we must make David’s consequent resolve our own—“Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel.”
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Deuteronomy 21
21. Various Laws
Law concerning Murder by Persons Unknown
21
If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,2then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body.3The elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked, one that has not pulled in the yoke;4the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.5Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord, and by their decision all cases of dispute and assault shall be settled.6All the elders of that town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,7and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to it.8Absolve, O Lord, your people Israel, whom you redeemed; do not let the guilt of innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Israel.” Then they will be absolved of bloodguilt.9So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, because you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Female Captives
10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take them captive,11suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman whom you desire and want to marry,12and so you bring her home to your house: she shall shave her head, pare her nails,13discard her captive’s garb, and shall remain in your house a full month, mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.14But if you are not satisfied with her, you shall let her go free and not sell her for money. You must not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
The Right of the Firstborn
15 If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,16then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.17He must acknowledge as firstborn the son of the one who is disliked, giving him a double portion of all that he has; since he is the first issue of his virility, the right of the firstborn is his.
Rebellious Children
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.20They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”21Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid.
Miscellaneous Laws
22 When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed, and you hang him on a tree,23his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you for possession.
New Testament in Four Years - 2 Corinthians 6:14-16
6. Reconciliation
The Temple of the Living God
14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness?15What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?16What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
“I will live in them and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 10
10. Psalm 10
Psalm 10
Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
1
Why, O Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2
In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor—
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
3
For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart,
those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.
4
In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”;
all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”
5
Their ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, out of their sight;
as for their foes, they scoff at them.
6
They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved;
throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”
7
Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.
8
They sit in ambush in the villages;
in hiding places they murder the innocent.
Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9
they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.
10
They stoop, they crouch,
and the helpless fall by their might.
11
They think in their heart, “God has forgotten,
he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”
12
Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed.
13
Why do the wicked renounce God,
and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?
14
But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief,
that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
you have been the helper of the orphan.
15
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;
seek out their wickedness until you find none.
16
The Lord is king forever and ever;
the nations shall perish from his land.
17
O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek;
you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
18
to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,
so that those from earth may strike terror no more.