Sun Gen 37:12-38:11; Ps 78:54-80:13; Lk 12:4-12
Mon Lev 13:53-14:32; Pr 16:17-17:1; Lk 12:13-21
Tues Dt 1:41-2:31; Job 27:7-28:11; Mt 17:9-18; Acts 14:8-28
Wed Judg 15:1-16:22; Is 33:17-34:17; Mt 17:19-27; 1 Cor 1:2-17
Thur 1 K 11:26-12:24; Jer 31:10-40; Jn 9:24-34; Eph 2:11-3:13
Fri ICh 6:1-8; Ezek 32:29-33:29; Jn 9:35-41; Heb 5:5-14
Sat IICh 24:1-25:10; Micah 3:5-5:5a; Mk 9:14-37; Rev 2:17-3:1a
if started the gospels with day 1, now 24th week before Resurrection chapters:
Sun Lk 12:4-12
Mon Lk 12:13-21 (through day 188/365)
Tues Mt 17:9-18
Wed Mt Mt 17:19-27 (through day 199/365)
Thu Jn 9:24-34
Fri Jn 9:35-41 (through day 182/365)
Sat Mk 9:14-37 (through day 194/365)
if going to land on the Resurrection on Easter Sunday (39 weeks before Easter)
Sun Lk 5:27-39
Mon Lk 6:1-5 (through day 83/365)
Tues Mt 9:20-31
Wed Mt 9:32-10:1 (through day 94/365)
Thu Jn 5:2-9a
Fri Jn 5:9b-18 (through day 77/365)
Sat Mk 5:1-13 (through day 89/365)
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Day 183. Gen 37:12-38:11.
37:14: if this is Joseph's typical or often-recurring task, you can see how such favoritism might grate on the brothers, having to work, with Joseph checking on them.
37:35: "all his sons and all his daughters" -- the sons, at least, in conspiracy, acting out. So Reuben's and Judah's earlier moral stance had melted back into the social goal of the majority.
38:11 "so Tamar went" -- this vastly understated passage of time, two sons to adulthood and marriage, and a third's coming of age reasonably within the child-bearing years of the first's wife, is a very literary way of hinting at Judah's character in this area. Yes, the culture of the times was amenable to concubines and levirate marriage. But is the gentle mockery of the text, of the patriarch Judah -- what Judah was worried about was circumventing another early-death issue, despite the explicit moral reason his first two sons died! The Lord takes two sons away from Judah for their evil, and Judah deals with a peripheral issue.
Day 183. Ps 78:54ff.
The portion of the Psalm up to this point was from the Exodus through Joshua. Starting with :54, the Psalm goes from Judges through to David. The altneration between the Lord's actions and the actions of the nation shows that God is to be morally reckoned with. Both His blessings and His punishments are discussed, and the "as if from sleep" is a reminder that His activities cannot be considered lockstep-predictable as to when they occur.
Day 183. Ps 79:1-80:13.
The tone of Psalm 79 is unabashed expression of the emotion of grief, and spoken toward God as the one who caused the grief. In doing so, it is a lesson in honesty over theological categorization. The stanzas in Ps 80 continue this honesty about grief, and combine it with faith that things will change when God does something different than He has.
Day 183. Lk 12:4-12.
12:5. It is a mark of the distance between Christ's saying and what our culture expects ... that the devil is the one to fear, and God is the one to not fear but only love ... that this saying surprises us. But the statement is a definite proof that Christianity is not a dualistic religion, and proof that to fear God is not solely an OT era obligation.
If 12:11 seems like an unlikely editorial juxtaposition, compared to the previous verses, consider that it may be deliberately together, and faithful to the time originally said by Jesus, that those statements in previous verses are followed by this one. One guess about a connection might be that having spoken about the eschatological future as having an apt correspondence between what is then said by the disciples and then done in heaven, should bring us confidence that God can well-supervise what is said now, even in the most pressure-filled circumstance now.
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