Week Fifty of Cultivate Delight, where we are actively planning our spiritual endeavors this coming week with the goal of a consistent time spent engaging our hearts with Christ in his word, in prayer, in reflection, and in music. Below are some starting points for reflection, and I hope you find them helpful. The goal is to not just rush through these and then get on with your day. Take your time and reflect throughout the week on these items.
“If I would not trust a man for a few pennies, would I trust him because he had dollars? If I cannot be content to trust God for the material provisions and things of this life, do I truly trust him for life everlasting?”
Paul Bayne – The Armor of God
Bible Reading
Job 6-14
Old Testament
(Two-year plan)
Revelation 8-12
New Testament
(One-year plan)
Liturgy – New City Catechism
Question 50: What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?
Christ triumphed over sin and death by being physically resurrected, so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come. Just as we will one day be resurrected, so this world will one day be restored. But those who do not trust in Christ will be raised to everlasting death.
1 Thessalonians 4:13–14
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Worship
Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)
One day, when heaven was filled with his praises
One day, when sin was as black as could be
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin
Dwelt among men, my example is he
The Word became flesh
And the light shined among us
His glory revealed
Living, he loved me
Dying, he saved me
And buried, he carried
My sins far away
Rising, he justified
Freely forever
One day, he’s coming
Oh, glorious day
Oh, glorious day
One day, they led him up Calvary’s mountain
One day, they nailed him to die on a tree
Suffering anguish, despised and rejected
Bearing our sins, my redeemer is he
The hands that healed nations
Stretched out on a tree
And took the nails for me
‘Cause living, he loved me
Dying, he saved me
And buried, he carried
My sins far away
Rising, he justified
Freely forever
One day, he’s coming
Oh, glorious day
Oh, glorious day
One day, the grave could conceal him no longer
One day, the stone rolled away from the door
Then he arose, over death he had conquered
Now he’s ascended, my Lord evermore
Death could not hold him
The grave could not keep him
From rising again (rising again)
Living, he loved me
Dying, he saved me
And buried, he carried
My sins far away
Rising, he justified
Freely forever
One day, he’s coming
Oh, glorious day
Oh, glorious day
Glorious day
One day, the trumpet will sound for his coming
(We long for your coming)
One day, the skies with his glories will shine
(Glories will shine)
Wonderful day, my beloved one bringing
(My Saviour) my Saviour Jesus is mine
Living, he loved me
Dying, he saved me
Buried, he carried
My sins far away
Rising, he justified
Freely forever
One day, he’s coming
Oh, glorious day
Oh, glorious day
Glorious day
Oh, glorious day