Daily Light for September 2

Morning

Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary. . . . He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.—Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.—You have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.

The testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.—Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Ps. 27:14; Isa. 40:28, 29; Isa. 41:10; Isa. 25:4; Jas. 1:3, 4; Heb. 10:35, 36 (Read full verses…)

Evening

He makes me lie down in green pastures.

“But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet. . . . There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”—“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”—Be still before the LORD.—Whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works.

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace.—So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.

With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste, he brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Ps. 23:2; Isa. 57:20, 21; Matt. 11:28; Ps. 37:7; Heb. 4:10; Heb. 13:9; Eph. 4:14, 15; Song 2:3, 4 (Read full verses…)

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