<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+19:7-14">Psalm 19:7-14</span></span></p><p>We said yesterday that exposed problems are the only ones that can be resolved. Is this just an interesting theory, or is it something that can be supported from Scripture? Let me see if I can convince you that this statement has a biblical basis. Come back with me to the Garden of Eden and think again about the questions which God put to the first human pair: "Where are you?  Who told you that you were naked?  What is this you have done?"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ge+3:9-13">Genesis 3:9-13</span>). Does anyone believe that God needed to ask those questions in order to gain information for Himself? Of course not; being omniscient (that is, having all knowledge), He already knew what they had done. Then why did He put those searching personal questions to them? Surely the answer must be that the direct questions encouraged them to face something that they preferred not to look at. God knew that before the problem could be dealt with it must be brought out into the open. Some people may think that by far the best way of dealing with unacceptable thoughts and feelings is to push them back into the unconscious but, as we are now seeing, that is a fallacy. Problems that are buried inside us rather than brought out into the light work to drain us of spiritual energy. It takes a lot of emotional energy to keep things repressed. This is why people who repeatedly use the defence of repression end up feeling overtired. Healthy people are those who, like the psalmist in  <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73">Psalm 73</span>, bring their thoughts and feelings into awareness - no matter how "unspiritual" those thoughts and feelings may appear to be. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, I now begin to see why You bring me face to face with so many disturbing questions, for You know the havoc that is wrought within when issues are ignored or denied. Help me face anything and everything. In Your Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+139:13-24">Psalm 139:13-24</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1co+11:27-28">1 Corinthians 11:27-28</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="la+3:40">Lamentations 3:40</span></li></ul></div>

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Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

" Clear me from hidden and unconscious faults." (v. 12, Amplified Bible) 

<p>Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.<br><br>When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? § The works of the Lord are great, studied by all who have pleasure in them.<br><br>Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. § This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night. § My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening. 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num poetry-line">14 </sup><poetry>May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart<br/><indent>be pleasing   in your sight,</indent><br/><indent><smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, my Rock   and my Redeemer.  </indent></poetry> </span></p>

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart<br/><indent>be pleasing<cr>1</cr>  in your sight,</indent><br/><indent><smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, my Rock<cr>2</cr>  and my Redeemer.<cr>3</cr> </indent>

Psalm 19:14

 14 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing   in your sight, Lord, my Rock   and my Redeemer.  

From Wikipedia: 

The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The NIV was published to meet the need for a modern translation done by Bible scholars using the earliest, highest quality manuscripts available. Of equal importance was that the Bible be expressed in broadly understood modern English.

The NIV is published by Zondervan in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The NIV was updated in 1984 and 2011 and has become one of the most popular and best-selling modern translations.

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 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing   in your sight, Lord, my Rock   and my Redeemer.  

<p><span class="bible-text "><poetry>May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart<br/><indent>be pleasing   in your sight,</indent><br/><indent><smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, my Rock   and my Redeemer.  </indent></poetry> </span></p>

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