Day 37 (Year 2) Woe to Those Who Distort Right and Wrong “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20 NKJV) Those who depart from God sometimes fall into inner confusion and darkness. […]
Day 36 (Year 2) Inner Darkness “They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.” (Job 12:25 NASB) The above verse is Job’s description of leaders who lack proper understanding. The word “grope” (mashash in the Hebrew) can be interpreted as “to move forward by feeling, to decide
Day 35 (Year 2) Do You Choose Good or Evil? “From the wicked their light is withheld, And the uplifted arm is broken.” (Job 38:15 NASB) Why do those who disobey God still seem to have happiness? According to the above scripture, it is because they have an “uplifted arm.” Yet in darkness, the arm
Day 34 (Year 2) Suffering Because of Disobeying God’s Words “There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death, Prisoners in misery and chains, Because they had rebelled against the words of God And spurned the counsel of the Most High.” (Psalm 107:10-11 NASB) For a person to leave spiritual darkness,
Day 33 (Year 2) When God Calls Evil to Account “‘Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them, They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will bring calamity upon them, The year of their punishment,’ declares the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:12 NASB) The preceding verses mention
Day 32 (Year 2) Understanding Spiritual Darkness “Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.” (Psalm 74:20 NASB) When God entrusted Paul with the gospel mission to turn people “from darkness to light” (Acts 26:18 NIV), we must first understand that “darkness” refers to spiritual darkness.
Day 31 (Year 2) Ears Opened and the Blind Seeing “On that day the deaf will hear words of a book, And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see. The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD, And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy
Day 30 (Year 2) Imitating Paul and Others Like Him “Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.” (Philippians 3:17 NKJV) The phrase “join in following” comes from the Greek word summimetes, meaning “a fellow imitator, or an imitator of others.” Faith in Jesus
Day 29 (Year 2) Be Alert to and Avoid Those Who Fall Away “Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.” (Romans 16:17 NASB) The phrase “keep your eye on” in the verse above comes from
Day 28 (Year 2) Setting Our Minds on What Has Eternal Value “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18 NASB) If we believers want
