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Morning, May 31 Go To Evening Reading “The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron.” —2 Samuel 15:23 David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. After God’s own heart, the man was not exempt from trouble; nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s Anointed and the Lord’s Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow’s gates, the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads; wherefore should we complain as though some strange thing had happened to us? The King of kings Himself was not favored with a more cheerful or royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King

  Morning, May 30 Go To Evening Reading “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines.” —Song of Solomon 2:15 A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines, and little sins make mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul and make it so full of hatred toward Christ that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. Jesus will not walk with his people unless they drive out every known sin. He says, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” Some Christians very seldom enjoy their Saviour’s presence. How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied to go on without seeing thy Father’s face? What! Thou the spouse of Christ, an

  Sunday, May 29, 2022, | Easter Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 16:6–10 Psalm Psalm 8 Psalm Psalm 14 (Supplemental) New Testament Revelation 22:12–17, 20 New Testament Romans 15:14–20 (Supplemental) Gospel John 17:20–26   Christian Worship Three Year Lectionary (with Supplemental Lectionary) . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, May 29, 2022, | Easter Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 16:16–34 Psalm Psalm 97 (UMH 816) New Testament Revelation 22:12–14, 16–17, 20–21 Gospel John 17:20–26  Vanderbilt Divinity Library. United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, May 29, 2022, | Easter Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 1:12–26 Psalm Psalm 133 Epistle Revelation 22:1–6 (7–11) 12–20 Gospel John 17:20–26   Lutheran Service Book Three Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Concordi

  May 29 Lesson 13 (KJV) The Fruit of Freedom Devotional Reading: Galatians 5:16–26 Background Scripture: Galatians 5:16–26 Galatians 5:16–26 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance

  Morning, May 29 Go To Evening Reading “Thou hatest wickedness.” —Psalm 45:7 “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he is not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others; none the less fervently because he showed his hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be the sterner, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer.” He hated wickedness so much that he bled to wound it to the heart; he died that it might die; he was buried that he might bury it in his tomb, and he rose that he might forever trample it beneath his feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays its