Today I read: 1 Chronicles 13-14, Psalms 90, Amos 8, James 1.
Gospel summary: Our earthly lives are brief while God is eternal. In our few moments of life, God gives us new life through Christ's atoning death and builds our faith through the trials we face. We must learn to heed God's trustworthy Word to us and doubt our own sin-stained desires.
Prayer: Father in heaven, you are the everlasting God and worthy of my constant worship. Remind me how brief my earthly existence is so that I may gain a heart of wisdom and fear you properly. My sinful desires are constantly tugging me towards heeding myself, but override my selfish bent through the power of your Spirit and grant me a firm faith in you. Teach me that every trial is a faith-building one with you at the ship's helm. Since my life is all a sigh and a vapor and a wilting flower, equip me to serve you with it while I still have breath. Give me an urgency to see a lost and dying world and go to them with the everlasting hope of the gospel. In Jesus' name, amen.
Memory verses: "Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God....So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom....Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!"(Psalm 90:1-2, 12, 17 ESV)
Hymn: "O God Our Help in Ages Past" by Isaac Watts
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Still may we dwell secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight,
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night,
Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the op'ning day.
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guide while life shall last,
And our eternal home.
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Still may we dwell secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight,
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night,
Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the op'ning day.
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guide while life shall last,
And our eternal home.
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