DAILY?READINGS: Numbers 11:4-35; Proverbs 9; 1 Peter 1
Every beast that parteth the hoof … and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deuteronomy 14:6
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly … But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:1-2
There is an interesting similarity between the clean animal and the blessed man. Two things characterized the animal that was acceptable to God. It chewed the cud and it had a parted hoof. So it is with the blessed man. He ruminates the Word that was read earlier, going over it again as he feeds his soul. This meditating process gives him power to walk a separated life, unspotted from the world. —Sid Halsband
I love t’employ the morning light, amongst the statutes of the Lord;
And spend the wakeful hours of night,
with pleasure pond’ring o’er the Word. —Issac Watts