Post-o-Matic 3.16† 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2009 Morning Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”—“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”—So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.—Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.—“Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD.” Heb. 12:1, 2; Luke 9:23; Luke 14:33; Rom. 13:12; 1 Cor. 9:25, 27; Phil. 3:13, 14; Hos. 6:3 (Read full verses...) Evening It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. We have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. . . . It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”—Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you. Lam. 3:27; Prov. 22:6; Heb. 12:9, 10; Ps. 119:67, 71; Jer. 29:11; 1 Pet. 5:6 (Read full verses...) << Jan 29 | Jan 30 | Jan 31 >> Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:01:00 -0800 at http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/daily.light/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
