Monday’s Scripture Readings:
OT: Ezekiel 25-26
NT: 1 Timothy 3
W&W: Psalm 119.49-56

Tuesday’s Scripture Readings:
OT: Ezekiel 27
NT: 1 Timothy 4
W&W: Psalm 119.57-64

Wednesday’s Scripture Readings:
OT: Ezekiel 28
NT: 1 Timothy 5
W&W: Psalm 119.65-72

Thursday’s Scripture Readings:
OT: Ezekiel 29
NT: 1 Timothy 6
W&W: Psalm 119.73-80

Friday’s Scripture Readings:
OT: Ezekiel 30-31
NT: 2 Timothy 1
W&W: Psalm 119.81-88

Today’s Reflection:

“At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws” (Psalm 119.62).

Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Sometimes I do. Something will awaken me in the middle of the night, and I find it difficult to fall back to sleep. Several months ago, I found a solution to quiet my mind and let sleep return to me. I think about God’s Word.

I have been trying to memorize 12 Psalms per year, and I have found that those Psalms help me on those restless nights. With them committed to memory, I can recite them over and over in my mind. (I don’t recite them out loud because I know that Lana wouldn’t like hearing me mumble in the middle of the night while she’s trying to sleep!) How thankful I am for God’s righteous laws – and his Psalms and gospels and letters and prophets!

When you awaken in the night, give God thanks for his word. May God remind us all of his laws. By his grace, may he make our mind inclined to think of his Word when we awaken. Then, we can thank him, have fellowship with him and respond to him. He will give us rest!

This Week’s Scripture to Memorize:
Let’s put Matthew 16.24-26 together: Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”