Day 71 (Year 2) Human Compassion Can Connect With God’s Compassion “If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday.” (Isaiah 58:10 NKJV) For a time, I skipped one or two lunches each week and […]
Day 72 (Year 2) Free from the Pollution of Darkness “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14 NASB) A “yoke” is commonly used for two oxen of similar size together to work in the same direction in farming
Day 73 (Year 2) Persistently Seeing the Lord’s Glory “For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.” (Psalm 36:9 NASB) “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as
Day 74 (Year 2) Honesty and Exposing Deception “For the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth.” (Ephesians 5:9 NASB) When believers behold the glory of Jesus, we can gradually be transformed into His likeness. Today’s scripture tells us that the fruit of God’s light includes all that is good,
Day 75 (Year 2) Righteousness and Goodness “For the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth.” (Ephesians 5:9 NASB) “Righteousness” in today’s scripture comes from the Greek word dikaiosune, meaning here “the purity, rightness, and integrity of one’s personal life, being approved by God.” Because God accepts us, we can
Day 76 (Year 2) Love True Believers “The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.” (1 John 2:10 NASB) In the journey to divine light, many believers encounter fellow pilgrims. However, those who lack a proactive desire to seek God’s light may find themselves
Day 77 (Year 2) God Knows Everything in the Darkness “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.” (Daniel 2:22 NASB) The context of the above scripture tells us that Daniel interpreted the dream of the Babylonian king at that
Day 78 (Year 2) Believe in the Lord’s Light and Become Children of Light “‘While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.’ These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.” (John 12:36 NASB) One important goal for believers as we turn
Day 79 (Year 2) God’s Righteousness Brings Forth Healing “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.” (Malachi 4:2 NASB) “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
Day 80 (Year 2) Turning to the True God … “They may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God.” (Acts 26:18b NASB) The word “turn” in the above comes from the Greek word epistrepho, meaning “to cause to return, to bring back, to the love and obedience of God
