Morning
As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also abounds through Christ.
The fellowship of His sufferings. § Rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. § For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. § If children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. § Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
2 Cor. 1:5; Phil. 3:10; 1 Peter 4:13; 2 Tim. 2:11;
Rom. 8:17; Heb. 6:17–18; 2 Thess. 2:16–17
Evening
Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap … Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin … Do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind … Your Father knows that you need these things.
Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Luke 10:41; Luke 12:24, 27, 29–30; 1 Tim. 6:8–10; Mark 4:19; Heb. 12:1
