Morning:
God hath caused me to be fruitful
in the land of my affliction.
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation; who
comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
comfort them who are in any trouble, by the consolation with
which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings
of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by
Christ.
Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
various temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though tried with
fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ. The Lord stood with me, and
strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known,
and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out
of the mouth of the lion.
Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the
keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as to a faithful
Creator.
Genesis 41:52 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 1 Peter 1:6-7 2 Timothy 4:17 1 Peter 4:19
Evening:
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary
be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not
the voice of the oppressor.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:
. . . they . . . rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them.
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. . . . Jesus spake of his death:
but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened.
Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,
to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why
doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then
do we with patience wait for it.
Hebrews 4:9 Job 3:17-18 Revelation 14:13 John 11:11 John 11:13 2 Corinthians 5:4 Romans 8:23-25