Formation Journal Reading Plan

Job 3▴

3:1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
3:2 Job answered:
3:3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
3:4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
3:10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
3:11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
3:13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
3:15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
3:20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
3:21 Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
3:22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
3:25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
3:26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

Psalm 46▴

46:1 For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
46:3 though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
46:4 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
46:5 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
46:6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
46:7 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
46:8 Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
46:9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
46:11 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Romans 16▴

16:1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
16:2 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
16:3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
16:4 who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
16:5 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
16:6 Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
16:8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
16:9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
16:10 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
16:11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
16:12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
16:13 Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
16:14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
16:15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
16:17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
16:18 For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
16:19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
16:20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
16:21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
16:22 I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
16:23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.
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