August 20

Morning

God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.

The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.--Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

His truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.

God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.--All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.--Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever.

Nu 23:19 Jas 1:17 Heb 13:8 Ps 91:4 Heb 6:17,18 De 7:9 Ps 25:10 146:5,6

Evening

[If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.--My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.--He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.--The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee.

I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, . . . who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; . . . so also Christ . . . though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.-- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

Pr 24:10 Isa 40:29 2Co 12:9 Ps 91:15 De 33:27 Ps 69:20 Heb 5:1,2,5,8,9 Isa 53:4