Today's daily thought has been brought to you from
Jonathan Bagster's Daily Light on the Daily Path.
Morning
Let us go forth therefore to him outside the camp,
bearing his reproach. For here we have no
continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to
you: but rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
glad also with exceeding joy.--As ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.
If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye];
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.--
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt:
for he had respect to the recompence of the reward.
Hebrews 13:13,14
1 Peter 4:12,13
2 Corinthians 1:7
1 Peter 4:14
Acts 5:41
Hebrews 11:25,26
Evening
The Lord Jesus Christ . . . shall change our lowly body,
that it may be fashioned like his glorious body.
Upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of
amber, as the appearance of fire around within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of
his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and it had brightness on all sides. As the appearance of
the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the
appearance of the brightness around. This [was] the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.
We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.--It doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more.--They
sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the
Lamb.
Philippians 3:20,21
Ezekiel 1:26-28
2 Corinthians 3:18
1 John 3:2
Revelation 7:16
Revelation 15:3