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  Morning, September 30 Go To Evening Reading “Sing forth the honor of his name, make his praise glorious.” —Psalm 66:2 Whether we shall praise God or not is not left to our own option. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of his grace, is bound to praise God daily. We indeed have no traditional rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing certain hours of song and thanksgiving: but the law written upon the heart teaches us that it is right to praise God. The unwritten mandate comes to us with as much force as if it had been recorded on the tables of stone or handed to us from the top of thundering Sinai. Yes, the Christian must praise God. It is not only a pleasurable exercise but also the absolute obligation of his life. Think not ye who are always mourning, that ye are guiltless in this respect, or imagine that ye can discharge your duty to your God without songs of praise. You are bound by the bonds of his love to bless his

  Morning, September 29 Go To Evening Reading “Behold, if leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” —Leviticus 13:13 Strange enough, this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own and pleads guilty before the Lord, then is he clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is true leprosy, but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its death blow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness o

Morning, September 28 Go To Evening Reading “The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.” —Psalm 33:13 Perhaps no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when he is spoken of as stooping from his throne and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the woes of mankind. We love him, who, when Sodom and Gomorrah were full of iniquity, would not destroy those cities until he had personally visited them. We cannot help pouring out our heart in affection for our Lord, who inclines his ear from the highest glory and puts it to the lip of the dying sinner, whose failing heart longs after reconciliation. How can we but love him when we know that he numbers the very hairs on our heads, marks our path, and orders our ways? Especially is this great truth brought near to our heart when we recollect how attentive he is, not merely to the temporal interests of his creatures, but to their spiritual concerns. Though leagues of distance lie

  Morning, September 27 Go To Evening Reading “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” —Deuteronomy 33:29 He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us ! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we “have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the c

  Morning, September 26 Go To Evening Reading “The myrtle trees that were in the bottom.” —Zechariah 1:8 The vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day, but being interpreted in its aspect toward us, it tells the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is compared to a myrtle grove flourishing in a valley. It is hidden , unobserved, secreted, courting no honor and attracting no observation from the careless gazer. The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendor is not yet come. The idea of tranquil security is also suggested: the myrtle grove in the valley is still calm while the storm sweeps over the mountain summits. Tempests spend their force upon the craggy peaks of the Alps, but down yonder where flows the stream which maketh glad the city of our God, the myrtles flourish by the still waters, all unshaken by the impetuous wind. How great is

  Sunday, September 25, 2022, | Pentecost Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Year C Old Testament Proverbs 9:8–12 Old Testament Genesis 12:1–8 (Supplemental) Psalm Psalm 19 New Testament Philemon 1, 10–21 New Testament Philippians 3:4b–11 (Supplemental) Gospel Luke 14:25–33   Christian Worship Three-Year Lectionary (with Supplemental Lectionary) . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, September 25, 2022, | Pentecost Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament 1 Kings 17:8–16 Psalm Psalm 62 New Testament Galatians 5:25–6:10 Gospel Matthew 6:24–34   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, September 25, 2022, | After Pentecost Proper 21 Year C First Reading & Psalm, Option I First Reading Jeremiah 32:1–3a, 6–15 Psalm Psalm 91:1–6, 14–16 or First Reading & Psalm, Option II First Reading Amos 6:1a, 4–7 Psalm Psalm 146