Daily Readings - 14/09/2026

^77:1 Loudly I cry to God, loudly to God who hears me.

^77:2 When in trouble I sought the Lord, all night long I stretched out my hands, my soul refusing to be consoled.

^77:3 I thought of God and sighed, I pondered and my spirit failed me.

^77:4 You stopped me closing my eyes, I was too distraught to speak;

^77:5 I thought of the olden days, years long past

^77:6 came back to me, I spent all night meditating in my heart, I pondered and my spirit asked this question:

^77:7 ‘If the Lord has rejected you, is this final? If he withholds his favour, is this for ever?

^77:8 Is his love over for good and the promise void for all time?

^77:9 Has God forgotten to show mercy, or has his anger overcome his tenderness? (pause)

^77:10 ‘This’ I said then ‘is what distresses me: that the power of the Most High is no longer what it was.’

^77:11 Remembering Yahweh’s achievements, remembering your marvels in the past,

^77:12 I reflect on all that you did, I ponder on all your achievements.

^77:13 God, your ways are holy! What god so great as God?

^77:14 You are the God who did marvellous things and forced nations to acknowledge your power,

^77:15 with your own arm redeeming your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (pause)

^77:16 When the waters saw it was you, God, when the waters saw it was you, they recoiled, shuddering to their depths.

^77:17 The clouds poured down water, the sky thundered, your arrows darted out.

^77:18 Your thunder crashed as it rolled, your lightning lit up the world, the earth shuddered and quaked.

^77:19 You strode across the sea, you marched across the ocean, but your steps could not be seen.

^77:20 You guided your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron.

^3:13 No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven; and the Son of Man must be lifted up

^3:14 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

^3:15 so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.

^3:16 Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.

^3:17 For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.