Some readings for the day, given to you this evening, Friday December 2, 2022.

Psalm 72.(a prayer for leaders, supplication specifically for Solomon)

Hebrews 12

1 John 1

Themes are God as sustenance.(God sustaining his people like water feeding grass.)

Christian conduct("compassed by so great a cloud of witnesses...")

Some Theology/Christology.

Note in Psalm 72 that the King was expected to see that needy children were cared for......

From 1 John 1, "in him there was no darkness at all..", and that is for us, for our understanding and maybe less as a scientific fact, that we see no evil or guile in the Triune God.

On missionary work, and the complexities of the Bible.

Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and to His perspective is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary work the great danger is that God’s call will be replaced by the needs of the people, to the point that human sympathy for those needs will absolutely overwhelm the meaning of being sent by Jesus. The needs are so enormous, and the conditions so difficult, that every power of the mind falters and fails. -Oswald Chambers

The Bible is indeed a very large Book, so that the greatest of us will never understand it all. Moreover, it is God’s Book and must necessarily contain much that is “hard to understand.” But this makes it the greater challenge to the believing heart to seek divine aid in exploring its depths and the greater joy when precious stones are brought up from this exhaustless mine.  -Cornelius Stam