<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+145:1-20">Psalm 145:1-20</span></span></p><p>We ended yesterday by saying that the fact God knows everything ought to strengthen our faith and cause us to bow in adoration before Him. Yet how little do we reflect on this divine perfection. Those who are inclined to rebel against God hate this aspect of His Being and would do away with it if they could. They wish there might be no Witness to their sin, no Searcher of their hearts, no Judge of their deeds. How solemn are the words of the psalmist recorded in  <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+90:8">Psalm 90:8</span>: "You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence." To the believer, however, the truth of God's omniscience (all knowledge) ought to be one of tremendous comfort and security. In times of perplexity we ought to say like Job: "He knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold" (<span class="scriptRef" ref="job+23:10">Job 23:10</span>). Whatever might be going on in our lives that is profoundly mysterious to us and quite incomprehensible to those who are around us, we must never lose sight of the fact that "He knows the way that [we] take." Right down the running ages God's people have consoled themselves time and time again with the fact that God knows everything about them. The psalmist, when seeking to stir his soul to confidence and hope, reminded himself in the midst of his weakness and weariness: "He knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+103:14">Psalm 103:14</span>). And Simon Peter, when his failure brought him almost to the point of despair and the searching question came "Do you love me?" said: "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you" (<span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+21:17">John 21:17</span>).</p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, help me reflect on this fact that You know everything, for I see that the more I understand it the more secure I will feel in my soul. Teach me still more, dear Lord. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-9">Isaiah 55:1-9</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="heb+4:12-13">Hebrews 4:12-13</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1jo+3:20">1 John 3:20</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What statement did God make?</li><li>What did the writer to the Hebrews confirm?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works." (v. 5)

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-13">Isaiah 55:1-13</span></span></p><p>After seeing in  <span class="scriptRef" ref="ge+1">Genesis 1</span> that God is all-powerful, the next thing we observe about God is that He is personal.But what does it mean to be a person? What predicates personality? The best definition of personality I know is the one given to me by the tutor who taught me theology: "To be a person we have to be able to think, to reason, to feel, to judge, to choose and to communicate in words that constitute a language." Richard Swinburne, a theologian, observes that people use language not only to communicate and for private thought, but to argue, to raise a consideration, to object to another. Unlike animals which show evidence only of wanting food and drink, people can want not to want something, like a fasting man, for example, wanting not to want food. Now with that in mind - that one of the constituents of personality is the ability to think and speak - read the first chapter of Genesis once again. Notice how many times the words appear: "God said." Count them. God is portrayed to us as a speaking God, and speech being one of the constituent parts of personality this proves that the Deity is a personal Being. We are not long into Genesis before we are brought face to face with the fact that there is more to God than mere power; the Almighty is a Person. This means, among other things, that the Almighty cannot be studied from a "safe" distance. Because He is a Person He is someone who wants and waits to be "known."</p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Loving heavenly Father, how thankful I am that You made me like Yourself - to know and be known. May my strongest desire be to know You, not merely to know myself. For it is only when I know You that I can most truly know myself. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ge+1:1-31">Genesis 1:1-31</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="job+33:13-14">Job 33:13-14</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1ki+19:12">1 Kings 19:12</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="eze+43:2">Ezekiel 43:2</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>How many times does it say 'God said'?</li><li>How did Ezekiel describe God's voice?</li></ul></div></div>

" so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (v. 9)

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+6:19-34">Matthew 6:19-34</span></span></p><p>We turn now to the next of our Lord's Beatitudes: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+5:6">Matthew 5:6</span>). One of the axioms of life is this: everyone thirsts after something. Some thirst for success, some thirst for fame, some thirst for stable relationships, and some thirst for financial security. But there is a thirst which is common to every human heart - the thirst for happiness. Notice, however, that Jesus does not say: "Happy are those who thirst for happiness", but "Happy are those who thirst for righteousness." Happiness, therefore, is a by-product - to get it, you must focus on something else. Dr W.E. Sangster, the famous Methodist preacher, when dealing with this point in one of his sermons, gave this illustration: "Do you enjoy a game of golf or tennis? Then this pleasure is strictly proportioned to the degree to which you lose yourself in the game. While it lasts, it must absorb you: your whole mind should be on the game. If you stop in the midst of it and ask yourself precisely what degree of pleasure you are deriving from this particular stroke, the pleasure will evaporate and you will begin to feel rather foolish in following a wee white ball over a mile or two of turf." To experience happiness, one must forget it and focus on something other than its pursuit. Those who reach out for happiness are for ever unsatisfied - the more they strive, the less they find. Happiness, I say again, is a by-product; it is not something you find, but something that finds you. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">My Father and my God, I see so clearly that if my goal is wrong, then all of life turns out wrong. Help me to make my goal, not the pursuit of happiness, but the pursuit of righteousness. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+4:1-14">John 4:1-14</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+6:35">John 6:35</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+36:8">Psalm 36:8</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1">Isaiah 55:1</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What did Jesus promise?</li><li>What do you thirst for?</li></ul></div></div>

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." (v. 33)

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="1co+2:6-16">1 Corinthians 2:6-16</span></span></p><p>We have been seeing that by going "into the sanctuary" - the place where God had made provision to meet with His people - the psalmist has put himself in a position where his perspectives can be changed. This section of the psalm is probably the most vital part, for it is here that his thinking begins to change from natural thinking to spiritual thinking. He had been thinking like a natural man, considering life from just one perspective, but in the sanctuary he begins to see life from God's point of view. What is the difference between natural thinking and spiritual thinking? Natural thinking is on the level of the earth - the level of man; spiritual thinking is on a higher level altogether - the level of God. It is surprising that so many Christians think naturally about their problems rather than spiritually. The psalmist was a good and godly man but under the pressure of circumstances he had reverted to thinking naturally about his problem. We will never learn to live effectively until we understand that the whole of life is spiritual, not just parts of it. In the chapter before us today the apostle asks, in effect, why it was that none of the rulers of this world recognised the Lord Jesus Christ when He was here. It was because they looked at Him from a natural perspective - they saw only a carpenter. Without the Holy Spirit operating upon their minds, they just could not understand. Ultimately, the problems and difficulties of life are all spiritual; so the sooner we learn to think spiritually, the better we will be. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Gracious and loving heavenly Father, I realise that if I am to become a spiritual thinker I must allow You to think in me. I have given You my heart, help me now to give You my mind. Think in me, dear Lord. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-13">Isaiah 55:1-13</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ro+12:2">Romans 12:2</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="jer+29:11">Jeremiah 29:11</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What did God declare to Israel?</li><li>How can we be transformed?</li></ul></div></div>

"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God " (v. 14) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+6:60-71">John 6:60-71</span></span></p><p>We come now to what is without question the topmost rung of the ladder which the psalmist began to ascend when he entered the sanctuary of God. Here, in view of his experience, he can do nothing but give himself to the adoration of God. This is what he says: "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73:25">Psalm 73:25</span>). The inevitable consequence of working through our problems in the presence of God is that we worship Him. Countless times I have seen people fall upon their knees at the end of a profitable counselling session and worship God. In fact, this is one of the great purposes of Christian counselling - to enlighten people about their spiritual resources and help free them to draw closer to God. The psalmist has found that there is no one in earth or heaven who can do for him what God has done. He has come to realise that when he plays truant with the Almighty there is simply no way in which he can make sense of life; that, as Othello put it: "Chaos is come again." Have you come to this same place in your own life? Can you say that you have seen through everything in this life and have come to the conclusion that nothing can satisfy you but God? Then you are in the happy position of the disciples who, pausing to consider how they could replace Jesus, said "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." They saw, as hopefully you have seen, that there is no satisfying substitute for Jesus. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O Father, how can I ever be grateful enough for the realisation that no one can do for me what You can do? You are my centre and my circumference; I begin and end with You. May the wonder of it go deep within me today and every day. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="jer+2:1-13">Jeremiah 2:1-13</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-3">Isaiah 55:1-3</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What had the children of Israel done?</li><li>What did God offer them?</li></ul></div></div>

"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." For reading & meditation -  John 6:60-71(v. 68)

<p><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-13">Isaiah 55:1-13</span></p><p>The Bible seeks in every possible way - to make men know the divine love and mercy. A great novelist in one of his stories tells of a child who ran away from her home. Every night when it grew dark a candle was set in the window of the old home and left to burn there all night, that the lost one, if ever she crept back, repentant, desiring to return - might see the light and know that it meant a welcome for her, that love's place was kept for her within.</p><p>The Bible is like a great palace standing on some mountain top in the center of a dark world. It has a thousand windows in it opening on all sides, and in every one of them a bright light shines, to tell earth's lost and weary ones, wandering in the gloom - of a home where they may find a welcome - if they but come to its door.</p><p>The fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah is one of these <span class="italic ">Bible windows. </span>The chapter opens with a call which falls on the ear of the lost like sweet music. "Ho! Every one who thirsts, come!"</p><p>There is a story of a <span class="italic ">thirsty traveler wandering in the desert. </span>He had a compass in his hand - but knew not whether its needle pointed toward a place of refreshment, or to a spot in which he must lie down and perish. He was utterly in despair. Turn which way he would, he seemed to be only wandering farther and farther away from hope. He had sunk down in the <span class="italic ">sands of despair, </span>when a <span class="italic ">little leaf </span>came, wafted by a passing breeze, and fell beside him. He picked it up, and <span class="italic ">new hope </span>took possession of his heart. The <span class="italic ">leaf </span>told him of <span class="italic ">life. </span>It could not have come far, for it was still fresh and green. At the place from which it came - there must be water, shade, and food. He knew the direction, too, for the breeze had borne it. So with the little leaf firmly clutched in his feverish hand - he rose and hastened in the direction whence the leaf had come, and soon was resting in the shelter of a green tree and quenching his thirst from the springs that gushed at the tree's roots! Like that little green leaf, dropping out of heaven, comes the call from God, of the opening words of this chapter to those who are weary and thirsty in spirit. Where it comes from - there must be water, food, and rest! It is divine love that sends it!</p><p>The call for <span class="italic ">attention, </span>"Ho!" is a call to life. It commands attention. It would arrest the most careless, those who are heedless and indifferent. It has a message, too; it is not an empty call. "Come to the waters! And he who has no money - come!" The invitation is<span class="italic "> universal. </span>"Every one." It is to the poor as well as to the rich. "He who has no money." It meets the universal human need. It fits the actual craving of men. "Every one that thirsts!" Who does not thirst? Who has not deep needs burning in his soul?</p><p>The <span class="italic ">blessing </span>offered is precisely adapted to the <span class="italic ">need. </span>"Come to the waters!" What <span class="italic ">water </span>is to <span class="italic ">physical thirst </span> - Christ is to men's<span class="italic "> spiritual </span>needs. This world's vanities do not satisfy - but what Christ gives, quenches all their thirst!</p><p>Then there is more than water, more than <span class="italic ">refreshing. </span>"Wine and milk!" These are symbols of <span class="italic ">nourishment </span>and <span class="italic ">exhilaration. </span>All is<span class="italic "> free, </span>too! "Without money!" Nothing has to be <span class="italic ">paid </span>for these blessings. Indeed, no money <span class="italic ">could </span>purchase them. Only earth's baubles can be bought with gold or silver. Yet, although free, there is a very real sense in which these blessings of salvation must be bought. "Buy, and eat." Money will not buy them - but like the man who sold all he had, to purchase the field with the hidden treasure in it - we must give up everything to get Christ. We must pay ourselves, our life - to win Him.</p><p>One of the saddest things in human life, is <span class="italic ">the wild search for things which will not satisfy men's real needs. </span>"Why do you spend money for that which is not bread?" It does seem strange indeed, that men never learn the folly of trying to find bread for their spiritual nature - in what this world has to give. They have deep cravings and they try to satisfy them with money, power, pleasure, or fame. But these things are not bread for the soul - and immortal lives cannot feed upon them. A hungry man is not satisfied by finding gold or pearls - it is bread he wants. What can money do - for one who is in deep spiritual distress, or when remorse embitters his life, or when he sits in deep sorrow by the coffin of his dead; or when, facing death himself, he looks into eternity? Nothing but<span class="italic "> Christ </span>will do in such moments! An angel cannot be fed upon earth's viands. Just so, a human soul finds no satisfaction in the possession of this world's trinkets!</p><p>What the gospel offers is real bread, because it satisfies the heart's cravings. God's blessing comes to us through <span class="italic ">God's Word. </span>"<span class="italic ">Hear </span> - and your soul shall live!" We are to listen to the invitations of divine grace. But there is a time when we must give heed to these divine calls - or it will be too late. "Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near!" The candle burns now in the window - but it will not always burn there. "Whoever will - may come," runs the Bible invitation - but there will come a time when it will be too late to answer the call - a time when God may not be found, when He will not be near - when the door will be shut!</p><p>There is only one way of accepting the invitation. We cannot take it - and <span class="italic ">keep our sins. </span>"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah." We cannot be saved - and still keep our evil thoughts in our hearts and go on in our evil ways. God is very willing to take our sins, putting them away forever - but He will not take our sins, without ourselves. We must give up our evil <span class="italic ">ways, </span>even our wrong <span class="italic ">thoughts, </span>and must serve God.</p><p>Men's hearts by nature are hard, like trodden fields. But even the hardest heart, God's grace can soften. "As the rain comes down and the snow from heaven ... so shall My word be." We all know how the <span class="italic ">rain softens </span>the dry and hardened ground. Its drops go to the roots of the withering grass and the fading flowers - and soon new life appears everywhere. So it is when God's Word falls upon a human life. It makes the barren life, fruitful. Sometimes it lies like <span class="italic ">snow </span>on the earth, not melting for a time. The results of holy teaching do not always appear at once. But as at last the snows melt and fill streams and rivers; so God's Word in a life - will some day find its way down into the heart and bless it. Heavenly lessons have lain for scores of years, producing no effect; yet, at last, when the <span class="italic ">warm love of God touched the life  - </span>it brought forth beautiful fruits.</p>

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Isaiah 55:1-13

The Gracious Invitation

<p>How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life.<br><br>Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty.” § Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” § This He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive.<br><br>Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. § The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

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 The fountain of living waters. 

<p><h3>Invitation to the Thirsty</h3></p><p><span class="bible-text "><span class="chapter-num mid-paragraph">55 </span><poetry>“Come, all you who are thirsty,  <br/><indent>come to the waters;  </indent><br/>and you who have no money,<br/><indent>come, buy   and eat!</indent><br/>Come, buy wine and milk  <br/><indent>without money and without cost.  </indent><br/></poetry> </span></p>

Isaiah 55:1

“Come, all you who are thirsty,<cr>1</cr> <br/><indent>come to the waters;<cr>2</cr> </indent><br/>and you who have no money,<br/><indent>come, buy<cr>3</cr>  and eat!</indent><br/>Come, buy wine and milk<cr>4</cr> <br/><indent>without money and without cost.<cr>5</cr> </indent><br/>

 1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,   come to the waters;   and you who have no money, come, buy   and eat! Come, buy wine and milk   without money and without cost.   

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 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 

<p><span class="bible-text "><poetry>“Come, all you who are thirsty,  <br/><indent>come to the waters;  </indent><br/>and you who have no money,<br/><indent>come, buy   and eat!</indent><br/>Come, buy wine and milk  <br/><indent>without money and without cost.  </indent><br/></poetry> </span></p>

 “Come, all you who are thirsty,   come to the waters;   and you who have no money, come, buy   and eat! Come, buy wine and milk   without money and without cost.   

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