Formation Journal Reading Plan

64:1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

64:2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

64:3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

64:4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

64:5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?

64:6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

64:7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

64:8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

64:9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

64:10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

105:23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

105:24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

105:26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

105:27 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

105:31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

105:32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

105:33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

105:35 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

105:36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

105:37 He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

105:42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

105:43 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

105:45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

2:6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

2:7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

2:8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

2:9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

2:10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

2:11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

2:14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

2:15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

2:17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

2:18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

2:19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

2:20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

2:21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

2:22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

2:23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.