For Monday, June 29th, 2026

MONDAY.

Morning.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; 

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

Gal. iii. 24.       

Gal. iv. 4, 5, 6.    

Rom. viii. 3, 4. 

Evening. 

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night. 

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 

The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 

The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore. 

Ps. xci. 1, 5.          

Ps. cxxi. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. 

June 29.

"I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me."

   —Ps. cxix. 75.

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." 

   —Rev. iii. 19.

These verses may remind some of deep sorrows, days of darkness, nights of weeping, never to be effaced from memory. What traces have they left? What results have they produced? Can we say, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted?" These things have not happened to us by chance, they were sent with a purpose, and it was a purpose of love. God doth not afflict willingly. O poor mourner, thy heavenly Father would not so grieve thy heart, unless some great and worthy end were to be accomplished: has it, then, been fulfilled in thee? God designs to bring thee to Himself if thou hast never yet come to Him; to recall thee if thou hast wandered from Him; or, perhaps, He prunes thy branches, even though fruitful, in order that they may bring forth more fruit, and he is no fruit-bearing Christian who would wish to be let alone. There is something in which the believer ought to be more zealous, something for which he ought to repent, and it is because God loves him that He chastens him to teach him these lessons.

"Affliction, when it spreads around,

May seem a field of woe;

Yet there at last the happy fruits

Of righteousness shall grow."