Formation Journal Reading Plan

Ezekiel 10

10:1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
10:2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
10:4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.
10:5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
10:6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
10:7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
10:8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
10:9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
10:10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.
10:11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn’t turn as they went.
10:12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.
10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.
10:14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
10:15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
10:16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them.
10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
10:18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
10:19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
10:21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
10:22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

Psalm 139:1-12

139:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
139:5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
139:6 This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
139:7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
139:9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
139:10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;”
139:12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Hebrews 10:19-39

10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
10:21 and having a great priest over the house of God,
10:22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
10:23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
10:24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
10:27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
10:28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
10:33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
10:34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
10:35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
10:36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
10:37 “In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
10:38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.