Formation Journal Reading Plan

25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

25:2 “Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

25:3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

25:6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

26:1 Then Job answered,

26:2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

26:5 “Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

57:1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

57:2 I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

57:3 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

57:4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

57:5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

57:7 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

57:8 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

57:9 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.

57:10 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

57:11 Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

10:2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food;

10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

10:9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

10:15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

10:18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

10:19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

10:20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

10:21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?