JANUARY 30
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MORNING
Let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith.
F any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross
daily, and follow me.--Whosoever he be of you
that forsaketh not all that he
hath, he cannot be my disciple.--Let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness.
Every man that striveth for the mastery
is temperate in all things. Now
they do it to obtain a corruptible
crown; but we an incorruptible. I
therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
I fight, not as one that beateth the air:
but I keep under my body, and bring it
into subjection: lest by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway.--Brethren, I
count not myself to have apprehended:
but this one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus.--Then shall we know, if
we follow on to know the LORD.
HEB.
12. 1, 2. Lu. 9. 23.--Lu. 14. 33.--
Ro. 13. 12. 1 Co. 9. 25-27.--Phi. 3. 13, 14.--
Ho. 6. 3.
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EVENING
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke
in his youth.
RAIN up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.
We have had fathers of our flesh,
which corrected us, and we gave them
reverence: shall we not much rather be
in subjection unto the Father of spirits,
and live? For they verily for a few days
chastened us after their own pleasure;
but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness.
Before I was afflicted I went astray:
but now have I kept thy word. It is
good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes.
I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, saith the LORD, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you
an expected end.--Humble yourselves
therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you in due time.
LAM.
3. 27 Pr. 22. 6. He. 12. 9, 10.
Ps. 119. 67, 71. Je. 29. 11.--1 Pe. 5. 6.
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