Read To Me Daily Semester 2نموونە

1SAMUEL 5-6:
Yesterday in the book of 1st Samuel, we saw the touching way that God revealed to Samuel how to listen for God's voice, and at the same time how He again warned Eli of impending disaster. Eli was incredibly able to recognize the way the Lord works, but at the same time was unconcerned about how God's words applied to him. Let us not be like him! Observe this link to Romans: God's judgment will come to us just as surely as it did to Eli's sons.

PSALM 93:
Today we'll enjoy the wonderful Psalm 93. Like the Gettysburg Address, sometimes the noblest thoughts are best expressed with brevity.

ROMANS 2b:
In yesterday's reading in Romans, Paul continued to prove that man is not “basically good” (which one keeps hearing in Hollywood films and on the television). Not only are we sinful, but we tend to be self-righteous— which in itself is sinful. The ‘bad news’ is compounded in these additional points: “A day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. … There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil— especially for the Jews, but also for the non-Jews.”

Romans 2, verse 12 is difficult to understand, so Phil suggests his Plain English Translation of that verse before starting today’s reading at verse 13:

2:12 PET So people who already know the Law and break it are just the same as those who've never heard about the law and commit sin. Sinners who don't know the Law will be destroyed. Similarly, people who already know the Law and commit sin will be judged according to the law.

Let’s pray.
Our heavenly Father, 

“How great your actions are! How deep are your thoughts!”
And mankind is foolish, stupid, and shortsighted. Mankind refuses to see that you are supreme forever, and that though
“the wicked may grow like weeds and prosper in all that they do,”
there will be a day of judgment when you will bring the righteous decisions you have promised. 

Hophni and Phinehas— and even Eli, blew off any thought that you would judge them. And when Paul talked to Felix about “believing in Christ Jesus, and about goodness, self-control, and the coming Day of Judgment, Felix became afraid and said, “You may leave now. I will call you again when I get the chance.” 

We pray Lord that those we care about and pray for will not be able to blow off the offer you give all of us in Christ. May your Spirit hound them to take action, and in full repentance may they turn to Christ.

Because,
“The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon. They are like trees planted in the house of the Lord, that flourish in the Temple of our God and that still bear fruit in old age and are always green and strong.

This shows that YOU, O Lord, are just, and that there is no wrong in You,”— our protector.