Read To Me Daily Semester 2Sample

JUDGES 6-7:
Yesterday we heard the story of Deborah and Barak. (Say, that name sounds familiar!) Barak doesn't get the glory for his notable defeat of Israel's enemy, Sisera. Instead, the crowning glory goes to a woman named Jael, who happened to see a new use for a tent peg. The poem in chapter 5 includes taunts to Israel's tribes who ‘sat on their hands’ and didn't get involved in the war.

PSALM 81:
Today’s poem, Psalm 81, has a mysterious part in verse 5, where an unknown voice (or perhaps ‘language’) speaks to us. But immediately afterward the unknown voice clearly belongs God, who speaks in the first person to us. 

GALATIANS 2:17—3:
I would like us to review Galatians 2:17-18 and 21 expressed as translated these difficult verses as we translated them into Indonesian:

17 But there are Jews who believe in Christ who still don’t understand the way we are made right in God’s sight— which is only through union with Christ. For them, if we no longer depend on the Law to become right in God’s sight, we’ve become ‘sinners’. That’s definitely wrong! Becoming a follower of Christ definitely doesn’t mean that we’ve become ‘sinners’! 18 For we in the past taught, “Let’s become right in God’s sight by depending on Christ.” If we now teach, “Turn away from Christ and depend on the Law again,” it becomes very evident that we really are ‘sinners’! 

21 So I reject turning away from the kindness of God which we receive through our union with Christ in order to go back to working to be made right in God's sight based on the Law. For if we suppose that mankind can be made right by obeying the Law, then it was useless for Christ to die for us!

Let’s pray.
Lord Jesus, we thank You that You fulfilled the Law for us, and through your death on the cross You broke down the division that used to separate the Jews and non-Jews. Now we come to You on the same basis. You give the Holy Spirit to us regardless of being Jew or non-Jew. Thank You for grace— the marvelous kindness of God, and that You died to establish that grace. Not only do our burdens of sin fall of at the foot of your cross, but there we also lay down everything that we are proud of. Nothing that we do— including all religious rites such as circumcision, could improve upon what You have done for us. Because You died for us, now we count that we ourselves died with You on the cross. Today, both my listener and I take up our crosses, to follow You. We’ll live for You. Please live in us.