daily reading 36.5 (Ephesians 5:13–14)

 5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024

Our opening prayer for this week:

    Lord, one thing I ask you:

    hold in check my pride,

    as a child obedient

    at its mother's side.

    All your sons and daughters

    to your heart are dear:

    let us now and always

    trust, and never fear. Amen.

Ephesians 5:13–14

• Everything exposed by the light is made visible, ¹⁴ for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

helpful notes on Ephesians 5:13–14

For yourself pray:

• That Christ floods your heart with the light of his beautiful forgiveness

For others pray

• That God raises from death an unbeliever you know

A song to listen to and ponder, as time allows

• Psalm 119, he (YouTube, duet, "Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes")