Daily Light on the Daily Path
Evening August 9
Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Eve … bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The LORD scattered them. - Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the LORD. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. - He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
JER. 2:13; Gen. 4:1; Gen. 11:4,8; Gen. 13:11,10,13; Eccl. 1:17,18; -Eccl. 2:4,8,11; John 7:37; Psa. 107:9; Col. 3:2.