Week 33/52

Week 33: My Daily Portion:

Monday: Esther 9-10, Psalms 42.
Tuesday: Job 1-2, Psalms 43.
Wednesday: Job 3-4, Psalms 44.
Thursday: Job 5-6, Psalms 45.
Friday: Job 7-8, Psalms 46.
Saturday: Job 9-10, Psalms 47.
Sunday: Job 11-12, Psalms 48.

Job 19:25-27
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
NKJV

Job 42:5-6
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
NKJV

This is the wonderful beauty of the Scriptures! We see Jobs cry of faith and belief in His God. His cry needs to be our cry. His yearning needs to be our yearning. His level of confidence in seeing the Lord with his own eyes, needs to be our confidence too, but then when Job does get to see God....when he does behold the Lord with his own eyes....his response is also very much what ours needs to be.

When Job sees God as God, he also sees himself as limited in his own understanding. He sees his own need to repent in response to Gods perfection.

This intense yearning for God and subsequent repentance at beholding Him, is the exact attitude that God loves. He responds to the passionate cry, and yet when He makes His appearance and is met with an attitude of humility, he rewards the contrite soul.

How about us? Do we long for the appearance, or for the coming of Christ? The Bible teaches us in Zechariah 12:10, that when we do see Him and our eyes behold Him, he will pour out on us a spirit of grace, and it the moment we see Jesus, the one we have pierced, we will look on him and mourn. While we rejoice at His coming, there is also a gazing at Him that causes us to weep in His very presence - because of who He is and what He has done for us.

I believe Job gives us this picture so we, too can respond rightly in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. May He find this same attitude in us when He comes.

Week 32/52

Week 32: My Daily Portion:

Monday: Nehemiah 9, Psalms 35.
Tuesday: Nehemiah 10-11, Psalms 36.
Wednesday: Nehemiah 12, Psalms 37.
Thursday: Esther 1-2, Psalms 38.
Friday: Esther 3-4, Psalms 39.
Saturday: Esther 5-6, Psalms 40.
Sunday: Esther 7-8, Psalms 41.

We're ahead of schedule! This week you can take a break and pay attention to the OT Readings and enjoy - I have left out the NT passages for a short season of time.

Aren't the stories in Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther amazing? I love these books so much! If you find you are behind in your readings, but you have it in your mind that your goal is still to finish the whole Bible in one year, then remember, the schedule we are on is to take you through the NT and Psalms and Proverbs twice. So, if you fall behind, you can go more slowly through the NT Readings, knowing that if you keep up with the OT Readings, you will still have reached your goal. Do what works for you!

Week 31/52

Week 31: My Daily Portion:

Monday: Ezra 5-6, Psalms 28, Luke 5-6.
Tuesday: Ezra 7-8, Psalms 29, Luke 7-8.
Wednesday: Ezra 9-10, Psalms 30, Luke 9-10.
Thursday: Nehemiah 1-2, Psalms 31, Luke 11-12.
Friday: Nehemiah 3-4, Psalms 32, Luke 13-14.
Saturday: Nehemiah 5-6, Psalms 33, Luke 15-16.
Sunday: Nehemiah 7-8, Psalms 34, Luke 17-18.

Week 30/52

Week 30: My Daily Portion:

Monday: 11Chronicles 27-28, Psalms 21, Mark 7-8.
Tuesday: 11Chronicles 29-30, Psalms 22, Mark 9-10.
Wednesday: 11Chronicles 31-32, Psalms 23, Mark 11-12.
Thursday: 11Chronicles 33-34, Psalms 24, Mark 13-14.
Friday: 11Chronicles 35-36, Psalms 25, Mark 15-16.
Saturday: Ezra 1-2, Psalms 26, Luke 1-2.
Sunday: Ezra 3-4, Psalms 27, Luke 3-4.