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Morning

Reclining at table close to Jesus.

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.”—They were bringing children to him that he might touch them. . . . And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.—Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”—For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are.—In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”—“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”—“The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

John 13:23; Isa. 66:13; Mark 10:13, 16; Matt. 15:32; Heb. 4:15; Isa. 63:9; John 14:18; Isa. 49:15; Rev. 7:17 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins.

Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat.

Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him. . . . Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. . . . O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.—All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

1 John 2:1, 2; Ex. 25:20-22; Ps. 85:9, 10; Ps. 130:3, 4, 7, 8; Rom. 3:23-25 (Read full verses…)

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Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
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Morning

If children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God.—So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.—He predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me.”

“The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.”—“The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.”

Rom. 8:17; Gal. 3:29; 1 John 3:1; Gal. 4:7; Eph. 1:5; John 17:24; Rev. 2:26; Rev. 3:21 (Read full verses…)

Evening

God chose what is low and despised in the world.

“Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?”

[Jesus] saw two brothers . . . casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me.”—Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit. . . . Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”—But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God.

1 Cor. 1:28; Acts 2:7; Matt. 4:18, 19; Acts 4:13; 1 Cor. 2:4, 5; John 15:16, 5; 2 Cor. 4:7 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.

Morning

“This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.”

We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.—“Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”—You were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise. . . . But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”

Ex. 12:43; Heb. 13:10; John 3:3; Eph. 2:12, 13; Eph. 2:14, 15; Eph. 2:19; Rev. 3:20 (Read full verses…)

Evening

[Jesus] prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death.

“Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD.”—Be constant in prayer.—Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication.—By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

“Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”—This is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.—Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

Matt. 26:44; Heb. 5:7; Hos. 6:3; Rom. 12:12; Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6, 7; Matt. 26:39; 1 John 5:14; Ps. 37:4, 5 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
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Morning

But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . goodness.

Be imitators of God, as beloved children.—“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”—“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.”

The fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.—The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.—He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Gal. 5:22; Eph. 5:1; Matt. 5:44, 45; Luke 6:36; Eph. 5:9; Titus 3:4-6; Ps. 145:9; Rom. 8:32 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Ebenezer; . . . “Till now the LORD has helped us.”

When I was brought low, he saved me.—Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy. The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.—Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God.—He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in.—Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

“When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”—You have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

1 Sam. 7:12; Ps. 116:6; Ps. 28:6, 7; Ps. 118:8, 9; Ps. 146:5; Ps. 107:7; Josh. 21:45; Luke 22:35; Ps. 63:7 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
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Morning

“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline.”

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”—As a father the son in whom he delights.—He wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.—Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.—“I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.”

He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.—He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Rev. 3:19; Heb. 12:5, 6; Prov. 3:12; Job 5:18; 1 Pet. 5:6; Isa. 48:10; Lam. 3:33; Ps. 103:10-14 (Read full verses…)

Evening

God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

They . . . called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!”

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.’ . . . But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other.”

“Lord, teach us to pray.”

Eccl. 5:2; Matt. 6:7, 8; 1 Kings 18:26; Luke 18:10, 11, 13, 14; Luke 11:1 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.

Morning

His commandments are not burdensome.

“This is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life.”—Whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

“My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”—“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. . . . Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding. . . . Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.—Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.—I delight in the law of God, in my inner being.

This is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another.—Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 5:3; John 6:40; 1 John 3:22; Matt. 11:30; John 14:15, 21; Prov. 3:13, 17; Ps. 119:165; Rom. 7:22; 1 John 3:23; Rom. 13:10 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist.—“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”—“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”—“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”—You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

In love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.—Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity? . . . He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.—To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, . . . to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Ps. 25:7; Isa. 44:22; Isa. 43:25; Isa. 1:18; Jer. 31:34; Mic. 7:19; Isa. 38:17; Mic. 7:18; Rev. 1:5 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.

Morning

“I know that my Redeemer lives.”

If while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.—He holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

“Because I live, you also will live.”—If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

“And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.—We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.—You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Job 19:25; Rom. 5:10; Heb. 7:24, 25; John 14:19; 1 Cor. 15:19, 20; Isa. 59:20; Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits.

“Take care then how you hear.”—Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom.—In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. . . . I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.—But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

1 Tim. 4:1; Luke 8:18; Col. 3:16; Eph. 6:16; Ps. 119:165, 103, 104; Ps. 119:105, 99; 2 Cor. 11:14; Gal. 1:8 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
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Morning

“Who can stand?”

Who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. . . . “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.—For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Rev. 6:17; Mal. 3:2; Rev. 7:9, 14-17; Rom. 8:1; Gal. 5:1 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

“Let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.”—“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.”

Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.—A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.—By works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight.

“By him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.”

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ps. 143:2; Isa. 1:18; Isa. 27:5; Job 22:21; Rom. 5:1; Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:20; Acts 13:38, 39; 1 Cor. 15:57 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.

Morning

“Oh that you would bless me, . . . and that you would keep me from harm. . . .” And God granted what he asked.

The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.—“When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him?”

Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people!—Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!—“I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.”

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”—The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

1 Chron. 4:10; Prov. 10:22; Job 34:29; Ps. 3:8; Ps. 31:19; John 17:15; Matt. 7:7, 8; Ps. 34:22 (Read full verses…)

Evening

It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

He . . . knelt down and prayed. . . . And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. . . . So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out . . . to the place called . . . Golgotha. There they crucified him.

Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival.

Ex. 12:42; 1 Cor. 11:23-25; Luke 22:41, 44; John 19:14, 16-18; 1 Cor. 5:7, 8 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.

Morning

When he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

To all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.—By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.—Christ . . . will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.—As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

1 John 3:2; John 1:12; 2 Pet. 1:4; Isa. 64:4; 1 Cor. 13:12; Phil. 3:20, 21; Ps. 17:15 (Read full verses…)

Evening

“The man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts.

In him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.—“I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.”—“I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me.”

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh.—To us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. . . . But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.” . . . “Let all God’s angels worship him.”

King of kings and Lord of lords.

Zech. 13:7; Col. 2:9; Ps. 89:19; Isa. 63:3; 1 Tim. 3:16; Isa. 9:6; Heb. 1:3, 8, 6; Rev. 19:16 (Read full verses…)

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Excerpted from Daily
Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good
News Publishers.