Morning
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. § Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.
How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you.
My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. § I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. § If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 17:17; 15:3; Col. 3:16; Ps. 119:9–10;
Prov. 2:10–11; Job 23:11–12; Ps. 119:99; John 8:31–32
Evening
Fellow citizens with the saints.
You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. § For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. • [The Father] has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
As sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Eph. 2:19; Heb. 12:22–23; 11:13;
Phil. 3:20–21; Col. 1:12–13; 1 Peter 2:11
