daily reading 26.5 (Zechariah 8:14–17)
5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: My soul falls, and I stick to dust; Lord, give me life divine. From vain desires and every lust Avert these eyes of mine. I need the vigor of your grace To speed me in your way, So I don’t stumble in my race, Or turn my feet astray. When sore afflictions press me down, I need enlivening powers; Your word that I have rested on Will help my heaviest hours. Can anyone your might repeal? Aren’t you the faithful God? Will you not grant me warmer zeal To run the heavenly road? My Savior, I your precepts love. I long to see your face. And yet how slow my feelings move Without enlivening grace! I will esteem your gospel more, And not neglect your word, When I have felt its quickening power To draw me to my Lord. Amen. Zechariah 8:14 –17 For the L ORD of Armies says this: "As I resolved to treat you badly when your fathers provoked me to anger, and I did not relent," says the L ORD...