Even if you live a long time, don’t take a single day for granted.
Take delight in each light-filled hour,
Remembering that there will also be many dark days
And that most of what comes your way is smoke.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 (MSG)
I create light and darkness, happiness and sorrow. I, the LORD, do all of this.
Isaiah 45:7 (CEV)
Let all that I am praise the LORD.
O LORD my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and majesty.
You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.
The winds are your messengers;
flames of fire are your servants.
O LORD, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
teeming with life of every kind,
both large and small.
Psalm 104:1–4, 24–25 (NLT)
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.1 John 2:9–11 (NIV)
Before I shaped you in the womb,
I knew all about you.
Before you saw the light of day,
I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations—
that’s what I had in mind for you.
Jeremiah 1:5 (MSG)
You, LORD, are the light that keeps me safe.
I am not afraid of anyone.
You protect me, and I have no fears.
Psalm 27:1 (CEV)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
I pray that you will be grateful to God for letting you have part in what he has promised his people in the kingdom of light. Colossians 1:12 (CEV)
He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,
and my life shall see the light. Job 33:28 (NRSV)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 (NIV)
Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of
Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®,
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)
Scripture quotations marked NCV are taken from the NEW CENTURY VERSION®. Copyright ©
2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW LIVING
TRANSLATION copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked CEV are taken from The HOLY BIBLE, CONTEMPORARY
ENGLISH VERSION copyright © 1997, 1997 by the American Bible Society. Used by
permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, THE NEW KING JAMES
VERSION © Copyright 1982. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN.
All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked MSG are taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
Scripture quotations marked NRSV are taken from the NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
BIBLE, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches
of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked ESV are taken from THE HOLY BIBLE: ENGLISH STANDARD
VERSION, copyright © 2001, Wheaton: Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights
reserved.
0 comments:
Post a Comment