Read To Me Daily Semester 3Sample

JEREMIAH 49:
Having heard all the bad news about Egypt, Philistia, and Moab in the special revelations God gave to Jeremiah, today we will hear the bad news for the nations of Ammon and Edom, the city of Damascus, and the nations of Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.

PROVERBS 10a:
From here on in the book of Proverbs we’ll go a bit slower, by half chapters, because each verse is a separate gem of wisdom. Almost all of these verses are examples of Hebrew parallelism. This means that the two lines of a couplet mutually comment on each other. Let’s take verse 2 as an example: 

Pro. 10:2 NLT Tainted wealth has no lasting value,
but right living can save your life. 

‘Tainted wealth’ in the first line is a contrast with ‘right living’ in the second. Solomon shows by this that doing things to obtain wealth dishonestly must not be considered ‘right living’. ‘No lasting value’ and ‘can save your life’ also comment on each other in an opposing way. Not only will tainted wealth quickly disappear, but it is dangerous for your life. You could get killed trying to gain tainted wealth. And matching the lines in the opposite direction we learn that— if you want to gain lasting profit and prosperity— the way to get that is by ‘right living’.

1JOHN 3:
At the close of 1st John chapter 2, John was speaking to us about living like God’s children. We’ll begin by reviewing the last two verses of chapter 2, before reading chapter 3.

Let’s pray.
Dear heavenly Father, we realize that there are forces that seek to cause us to fall in love with the world, rather than loving you. They cry out to us, “Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better.” And we’re not just talking about real bread and water! The forces of darkness want to trap us with sinful desires. They want us to gaze at whatever it is that tempts us most. They flatter us, because they want us to be proud, and to use that pride to cause our downfall. Most of all, the forces of the Evil One want us to break our fellowship and union with Christ. Lord, please work powerfully within us by the Holy Spirit. O Holy Spirit, help us realize when some teaching or other allurements and advertisements are seeking to pull us into worldly thinking. Help us realize when the teaching we are receiving is not agreeing with your Word. Help us to value knowing you, heavenly Father. Thank you that we know your Son, who existed from the beginning. Help us to save your Word in our hearts. Because by that Word actively working in us, we have the strength to defeat the Evil One.