Read To Me Daily Semester 2Sample

1SAMUEL 25:
In our reading in 1st Samuel yesterday, God gave protection and victory to David. In a scene that must have caused Saul's men to roll their eyes several times, Saul was humbled before them as David directly confronted him. But after making peace, they didn't go back to the capital together.

PSALM 105a:
Today’s psalm is for teaching and reminding each generation of the children of Israel about the great things God has done for the Jewish people. We’ll read just the first half of Psalm 105 today.

ROMANS 9a:
What wonderful promises God has given to us in chapter 8 of Romans! Phil relates two little stories: “Romans 8 always reminds me of a time when a Christian leader did wrong to me, and then said that it really didn’t matter because it would all turn out OK because of Romans 8:28. That is the ultimate of hypocrisy! It ruined that verse for me for a long time. But God DOES indeed work all things for good for all of us who fulfill the conditions stated. This chapter also reminds me of Eloise Burson— the wife of one of my spiritual fathers, Richard. Some years after her husband's death, she showed me how her Bible— if you just let it fall open, would always open to Romans 8. There is no richer passage to meditate on or to memorize.”

Note that we are entering a difficult section of Romans. Romans 12 starts with “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercies, …” But if you look back at what goes right before that in chapter 11, that doesn’t seem to be what Paul is going back to with the word ‘Therefore’ and ‘mercies’. Can you find what Paul was going back to and how the sections we will read for the next few days fit together in the flow of the whole book?

Let’s pray.
Our heavenly Father, Paul says it: “In view of all this, what can we say?” We are so amazed and overwhelmed! First of all, our reaction is to not believe the wonderful things we have read, because we know that we don’t deserve them. It seems too good to be true. Holy Spirit, please help our unbelief! Heavenly Father, to not believe that You have adopted us as your sons and that you love us is to fall for Satan’s lies. You really do love us! And like a bride or a groom at the altar responding to the preacher’s question, we say to You, “I do.” Lord, we will love You back! Lord, please help us not to forget what Romans 8 tells us, because in your wisdom and for our good, while we are in this world You send such things as suffering, hardship, persecution, hunger, poverty, danger, and death. These things do not mean that You have stopped loving us. Instead they are evidence that You are treating us as your sons. Paul says that in all of those things we have complete victory through Jesus, who has proved his love for us. Today, we give our lives totally to You.