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Daily Light's Morning Reading
The Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.—PROV. 3:26.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.—The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.—When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that wait for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.—I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.—Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Psa. 76:10. -Prov. 21:1. -Prov. 16:7.Psa. 130:5,6. -Psa. 34:4.Deut. 33:27. -Jer. 17:7.Rom. 8:31.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“Babes in Christ.”
1 Corinthians 3:1
Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father’s heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, “put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!” but the smoking flax he will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but he will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though “less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess.” Yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - 1 Samuel 21
21. David at Nob and Gath
David and the Holy Bread
21
David came to Nob to the priest Ahimelech. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”2David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.3Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”4The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”5David answered the priest, “Indeed women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”6So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.
8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no spear or sword here with you? I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”9The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none here except that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
David Flees to Gath
10 David rose and fled that day from Saul; he went to King Achish of Gath.11The servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,
‘Saul has killed his thousands,
and David his ten thousands’?”
12 David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of King Achish of Gath.13So he changed his behavior before them; he pretended to be mad when in their presence. He scratched marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.14Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”
New Testament in Four Years - Ephesians 6:13-18
6. Relationships and Final Greetings
13Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.14Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness.15As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace.16With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.17Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.18 Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 81
81. Psalm 81
Psalm 81
God’s Appeal to Stubborn Israel
To the leader: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.
1
Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2
Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our festal day.
4
For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5
He made it a decree in Joseph,
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a voice I had not known:
6
“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
7
In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah
8
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9
There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10
I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11
“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
13
O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their foes.
15
Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
and their doom would last forever.
16
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”