Morning

Reclining at table close to Jesus.

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.”—They were bringing children to him that he might touch them. . . . And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.—Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”—For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are.—In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”—“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”—“The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

John 13:23; Isa. 66:13; Mark 10:13, 16; Matt. 15:32; Heb. 4:15; Isa. 63:9; John 14:18; Isa. 49:15; Rev. 7:17 (Read full verses...)

Evening

Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins.

Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat.

Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him. . . . Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. . . . O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.—All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

1 John 2:1, 2; Ex. 25:20-22; Ps. 85:9, 10; Ps. 130:3, 4, 7, 8; Rom. 3:23-25 (Read full verses...)

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Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.