FEBRUARY 21

MORNING

AM the LORD your God, who have separated you from other people. And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that ye should be mine.

      Sanctified by God the Father.--Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.--The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

      Jesus . . . that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.--Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.--Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.--For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth . . . Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

EVENING

Light is sown for the righteous, and

HEY that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

      That which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be.

      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through various temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.