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Daily Light's Morning Reading
None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.—ROM. 14:7.
Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.—Let no man seek his own: but every man another's wealth.—Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.
I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Rom. 14:8. -I Cor. 10:24. -I Cor. 6:20.Phi. 1:20-23.Gal. 2:19,20.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.”
Song of Solomon 5:8
Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus, he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease except they are in a state of nearness to Christ; for when they are away from him they lose their peace. The nearer to him, the nearer to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to him, the fuller the heart is, not only of peace, but of life, and vigour, and joy, for these all depend on constant intercourse with Jesus. What the sun is to the day, what the moon is to the night, what the dew is to the flower, such is Jesus Christ to us. What bread is to the hungry, clothing to the naked, the shadow of a great rock to the traveller in a weary land, such is Jesus Christ to us; and, therefore, if we are not consciously one with him, little marvel if our spirit cries in the words of the Song, “I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, tell him that I am sick of love.” This earnest longing after Jesus has a blessing attending it: “Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness”; and therefore, supremely blessed are they who thirst after the Righteous One. Blessed is that hunger, since it comes from God: if I may not have the full-blown blessedness of being filled, I would seek the same blessedness in its sweet bud-pining in emptiness and eagerness till I am filled with Christ. If I may not feed on Jesus, it shall be next door to heaven to hunger and thirst after him. There is a hallowedness about that hunger, since it sparkles among the beatitudes of our Lord. But the blessing involves a promise. Such hungry ones “shall be filled” with what they are desiring. If Christ thus causes us to long after himself, he will certainly satisfy those longings; and when he does come to us, as come he will, oh, how sweet it will be!
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Joshua 12
12. List of Defeated Kings
The Kings Conquered by Moses
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Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites defeated, whose land they occupied beyond the Jordan toward the east, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:2King Sihon of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,3and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;4and King Og of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei5and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.6Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites defeated them; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
The Kings Conquered by Joshua
7 The following are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,8in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
9
the king of Jericho one
the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel one
10
the king of Jerusalem one
the king of Hebron one
11
the king of Jarmuth one
the king of Lachish one
12
the king of Eglon one
the king of Gezer one
13
the king of Debir one
the king of Geder one
14
the king of Hormah one
the king of Arad one
15
the king of Libnah one
the king of Adullam one
16
the king of Makkedah one
the king of Bethel one
17
the king of Tappuah one
the king of Hepher one
18
the king of Aphek one
the king of Lasharon one
19
the king of Madon one
the king of Hazor one
20
the king of Shimron-meron one
the king of Achshaph one
21
the king of Taanach one
the king of Megiddo one
22
the king of Kedesh one
the king of Jokneam in Carmel one
23
the king of Dor in Naphath-dor one
the king of Goiim in Galilee, one
24
the king of Tirzah one
thirty-one kings in all.
New Testament in Four Years - Galatians 1:1-5
1. Paul Called by God
Salutation
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Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—2and all the members of God’s family who are with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,4who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,5to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 32
32. Psalm 32
Psalm 32
The Joy of Forgiveness
Of David. A Maskil.
1
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
2
Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3
While I kept silence, my body wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.Selah
5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin.Selah
6
Therefore let all who are faithful
offer prayer to you;
at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters
shall not reach them.
7
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.Selah
8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9
Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle,
else it will not stay near you.
10
Many are the torments of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord.
11
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.