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Monday
First Lesson
Lamentations 1:1-6
1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how
is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations,
and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:
among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends
have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth
no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins
are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:
her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they
are gone without strength before the pursuer.
1st Lesson Questions -
Lamentations 1:1-6. This passage is a dirge over a dead city - as it was a lament over Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C. Is my city about ready to have a dirge said over it, because it has turned its back on God? How so? RESOLVE
Second Lesson
1 Peter 3:13-22
13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that
which is good?
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye:
and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the
hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of
you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse
your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer
for well doing, than for evil doing.
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for
the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death
in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a-preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save
us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer
of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
2nd Lesson Questions -
1 Peter 3:13-22. V. 13 is a "pithy" truth. Do I believe it? If so, how ought I act when faced with adversity, and especially the type which includes much suffering for the sake of the Gospel? Do I? RESOLVE