“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been
doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.”
(Genesis 2:2)
Thoughts… On the seventh day, God rested—so shall we.
You will notice on our New Testament reading plan that there are no readings for Saturday and Sunday. So each weekend I would encourage you to take advantage of these two days to try a few things:
• Catch up on your reading and journaling if you have gotten behind.
• Go back and read some previous posts from 2007—a couple of them are pretty good!
• Review your own journaling over the past few days, and prayerfully consider how you are doing with practically applying God’s Word to your life.
• Use these two days to read through the Psalms and Proverbs. If you will read three chapters from the Psalms and two from Proverbs on the weekends—slowly savoring the meat of God’s Word—you will read these two wonderful books of wisdom through in 2008 along with the New Testament.
• And don’t forget to share with someone something that has blessed you in your reading this past week.
For now, enjoy Psalm 1—I’ll see you on Monday!
Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Prayer… Father, give me an insatiable desire for your Word. May it become the delight of all delights in my life. Make me like the man of Psalm 1—consumed with a passion for your Word.
One More Thing… “The Bible is meant to be bread for our daily use, not just cake for special occasions.”
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