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Daily LightDaily Light on the Daily Path: morning and evening Scripture portions
Comfort of the ScripturesA daily Scripture verse, meditation and poem
Growing in GraceA daily Bible verse and devotional
Christians Daily CalendarScripture verses and a poem for every day of the year
Young Christians CalendarA daily meditation for young ChristiansScripture verses and a poem for every day of the year
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| Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow, which is done unto Me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted Me. (Lam. 1:12) |
| They that passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads. (Matt. 27:39) |
| He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. (Isa. 53:3) |
| Enduring the grief and the shame, Thou barest our sins on the cross; Oh! who would not boast of this love, And count the world’s glory but loss? |
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| At the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God. (Ezra 9:5) |
| Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. (Prov. 12:25) |
| When vision fadeth, and the sense of things, And powers dissolve like colors in the air; And no more can I bring Thee offerings Nor any ordered prayer — Then, like a wind blowing from paradise, Falleth a healing word upon my ear: “Let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice”; The Lord does hear. |
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| Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. (Luke 12:27‑30) |
| Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision; Our God ever yearns His resources to share; Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing; The Father both thee and thy load will upbear. |
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| There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Rom. 3:10‑12) |
| To him that … believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Rom. 4:5) |
| No works of merit now I plead, But Jesus take for all my need; No righteousness in me is found, Except upon redemption ground. |
| Come, weary soul, and here find rest; Accept redemption, and be blest: The Christ who died, by God is crowned And pardons on redemption ground. |
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| Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself. (Gen. 24:64‑65) |
| Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness? (Song of Sol. 3:6) |
| He [Jesus] saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid. Then they willingly received Him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. (John 6:20‑21) |
| We shall know — for we can trust Him Who has led us all the way; Who has ransomed and redeemed us, Who has been our staff and stay; Who has made a path before us Through the desert and the sea; To the Lord who sought and saved us, Evermore our praise shall be. |
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| Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it. (Col. 4:17) |
| Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. (1 Tim. 4:16) |
| Thy life in me be shown! Lord, I would henceforth seek To think and speak Thy thoughts, Thy words alone, No more my own. |
| Jesus, my life is Thine, And evermore shall be Hidden in Thee! For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine. |
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| Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. (1 Thess. 3:10) |
| This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. (Phil. 1:9) |
| There is a spot where souls unite, And saint meets saint in heavenly light; Though sundered far, by faith they meet Before the common mercy-seat. |
| There is a place where mercy sheds The oil of gladness on our heads; A place than all beside more sweet — It is the heavenly mercy-seat. |
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| O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. (Psa. 34:3) |
| Praise the Lord … make mention that His name is exalted. (Isa. 12:4) |
| Jesus … being by the right hand of God exalted. (Acts 2:32‑33) |
| Our thanks to God most high! The Father of our Lord, The Savior-God is He, And be His name adored! Thy power and grace are still the same; Let endless praise exalt His name. |
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| Brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship. (Acts 20:32,36‑38) |
| While to several paths dividing, We our pilgrimage pursue, May our Shepherd, safely guiding, Still be kept in constant view; May the bond of blest communion Every distant soul embrace, Till, in everlasting union, We attain our resting-place. |
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| Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:16) |
| Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus: who have for my life laid down their own necks. (Rom. 16:3‑4) |
| For the work of Christ he [Epaphroditus] was nigh unto death, not regarding his life. (Phil. 2:30) |
| God has given a standard of love to His own, That His children should have for each other; That as He unto us love unmeasured has shown, We ought also to love one another. |
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| O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! (Deut. 32:29) |
| Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. (Prov. 19:20‑21) |
| Tomorrow’s sun may never rise To bless your self-indulgent sight; This is the time, oh, then, be wise; You would be saved: Why not tonight? |
| The world has nothing new to give; It has no true, no pure delight; Look now to Jesus Christ and live! You would be saved: Why not tonight? |
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| In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and His rest shall be glorious. (Isa. 11:10) |
| The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Hab. 2:14) |
| Then shall Thy whole creation From bondage know release; Then shall the world’s long warfare End in a righteous peace; Then shall Jehovah’s glory Cover the earth and sea, And Christ be King forever; Amen; so let it be. |
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| God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2 Cor. 5:19) |
| He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is He which was ordained of God. (Acts 10:42) |
| They went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them. (Mark 16:20) |
| Oh, make us fervent in the quest, That we may bring them in, The weary and the wounded, And the sufferers from sin; The stricken and the dying, Let us seek them out for Thee, And lay them at Thy glorious feet, That healed they may be. |
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| We will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. (Acts 6:4) |
| Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. (Acts 10:4) |
| Oh help me, Lord, to take the time — To set all else aside, That in the secret place of prayer I may with Thee abide. |
| To hearken to Thy holy will, To feel Thy cleansing power — Oh may I ne’er let aught deprive My soul of this blest hour! |
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| As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep. (John 10:15) |
| No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. (John 10:18) |
| He said, It is finished: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30) |
| The Father sent the Son A ruined world to save; Man meted to the sinless One The cross — the grave; Blest Substitute from God, Wrath’s awful cup He drained; Laid down His life, and e’en the tomb’s Reproach sustained. |
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| When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. (2 Kings 4:20‑21) |
| Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. (2 Kings 4:26) |
| When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. |
| And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, Even so — it is well with my soul. |
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| Follow Me. Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on His breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth Thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou Me. (John 21:19‑22) |
| And work in me to will and do Thy pleasure; Let all within me, peaceful, reconciled, Tarry, content my Well-Beloved’s leisure, At last, at last, even as a weaned child. |
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| I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge. (Rev. 19:11) |
| I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:11,15) |
| Why will you linger? Why will you die? God’s wrath upon you, Judgment so nigh; Now in salvation’s day Tread the blood-sprinkled way; Oh friend, no more delay: Jesus will come. |
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| That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. (Phil. 2:15‑16) |
| Then let our gladsome praise resound, And let us in His work abound, Whose blessed name is Love; We’re sure our labor’s not in vain, For we with Him ere long shall reign — With Jesus dwell above. |
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| I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. (Phil. 4:12) |
| My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:19) |
| Through the whole of life’s long way, Outward, inward need we trace; Need arising day by day, Patience, wisdom, strength and grace; Needing Jesus most of all, Full of need, on Him we call; Then how gracious His reply: God shall all your need supply! |
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| There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age … and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of Him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. (Luke 2:36‑38) |
| Place of glory, place of blessing, Place where God His heart displays, All in Thee, O Christ, possessing, Thine the voice that leads our praise; Thine the new, eternal song, Through the ages borne along. |
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| Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth BREAD and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. (Gen. 14:18) |
| David said unto him, Fear not. … Thou shalt eat BREAD at my table continually. (2 Sam. 9:7) |
| Jesus took BREAD, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat; this is My body. (Mark 14:22) |
| Jesus, the BREAD of life, is given To be our daily food; Within us dwells that well from heaven, The Spirit of our God. |
| Such was Thy grace, that for our sake Thou didst from heaven come down; With us of flesh and blood partake, And make our guilt Thine own. |
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| By Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. (Col. 1:16‑17) |
| Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Luke 12:7) |
| Fear not, my soul; in peace abide, Though threatening clouds hang low, And rumblings grim on every side Each hour intenser grow. |
| The Lord who stretched the heavens forth, The earth’s foundation laid — With that same power He guards His child And says, “Be not afraid.” |
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| O that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. (Isa. 48:18) |
| Great peace have they which love Thy law. (Psa. 119:165) |
| Thy mighty name Salvation is, And keeps our happy souls above; Comfort it brings, and power and peace And joy and everlasting love; To us, with Thy dear name, are given Pardon and holiness and heaven. |
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| They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. (Psa. 34:10) |
| The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be found of thee. (1 Chron. 28:9) |
| Once again the gospel message From the Savior you have heard; Will you heed the invitation? Will you turn and seek the Lord? |
| Jesus for your choice is waiting; Tarry not; at once decide! While the Spirit now is striving, Yield, and seek the Savior’s side. |
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| We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (2 Cor. 5:10) |
| Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. (1 Cor. 3:13‑14) |
| Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done; Then, in “that day” my Lord to meet, And stand before His judgment seat; Only one life, ’twill soon be past; Only what’s done for Christ will last. |
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| I will wait upon the Lord … and I will look for Him. (Isa. 8:17) |
| Consider Him … lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (Heb. 12:3) |
| Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (Psa. 103:5) |
| Wonderful promises given To those who wait on the Lord; Strength for the faint who have fallen, Power for weakness outpoured. |
| Blessed the threefold assurance Thrilling the soul like a song: They shall mount up as the eagles On wide wings, swift wings and strong. |
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| When we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again. (Acts 21:5‑6) |
| Thus, as the moments pass away, We’ll love and wonder and adore; And hasten on the glorious day When we shall meet to part no more. |
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| The eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him. (Luke 4:20) |
| When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. (Matt. 17:8) |
| Jesus, the One who trod the earth, The lowly, subject One, Obedience unto death was Thine, God’s well-beloved Son! |
| Jesus! what memories thrill our hearts Of Thy blest footprints here, While now to heaven our eyes we turn And gaze upon Thee there! |
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| Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4) |
| These things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves. (John 17:13) |
| To walk with God, oh fellowship divine! Man’s highest state on earth — Lord, be it mine! With Thee, may I a close communion hold; To Thee, the deep recesses of my heart unfold. |
| Oh, may this high companionship be mine, And all my life by its reflection shine, My great, my wise, my never-failing friend, Whose love no change can know, nor turn, nor end! |
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| We are members one of another. (Eph. 4:25) |
| Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. (Eph. 4:31) |
| How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. (Matt. 18:21‑22) |
| Lord, help me be kind and forgiving — I who Thy forgiveness have known So oft for my many transgressions; Grant me, Lord, a love like Thine own. |
| Thou who didst once suffer for sinners Such bitter reproach and disdain, Fill me with that same gentle spirit, That reviled, still reviles not again. |