Daily Light on the Daily Path: English Standard Version Bible

This inspiring devotional is a collection of Scripture verses centered on a theme for each of two daily readings. In the English Standard Version Bible.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Daily Light for September 7

Morning

Rejoice in hope.

The hope laid up for you in heaven.—If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.—Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.—“Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.”—That no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.—May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.— Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.—Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.—Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom. 12:12; Col. 1:5; 1 Cor. 15:19; Acts 14:22; Luke 14:27; 1 Thess. 3:3; Phil. 4:4; Rom. 15:13; 1 Pet. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:8; Rom. 5:2 (Read full verses...)

Evening

I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil.”—“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”—How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.—How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!—You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us.

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.—Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom?—Having nothing, yet possessing everything.—The unsearchable riches of Christ.

Ps. 40:17; Jer. 29:11; Isa. 55:8, 9; Ps. 139:17, 18; Ps. 92:5; Ps. 40:5; 1 Cor. 1:26; Jas. 2:5; 2 Cor. 6:10; Eph. 3:8 (Read full verses...)

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