Today's Bible reading is the 10th chapter of the Book of Luke. You can read it here at Bible Gateway:  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10&version=NASB

I appreciate a simple verse out of today's passage that should help remind us of a proper perspective to have in life. Jesus had sent out "the seventy" in pairs to go to all of the cities and places where Jesus Himself was going to go. We read that they returned "with joy" and when they spoke of their journey they said, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." I suppose that may have been my response as well had I been amongst the seventy. But the Lord did not want their "joy" to be based on the authority He had given them over demons. Jesus acknowledged the authority He had given them and His awareness of their effectiveness in the work He had sent them to. But in verse twenty Jesus says, "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven." Ministry involves both good times and difficult ones. Although we can and should rejoice when we see the Lord work in and through His vessels, the foundation of our joy, and that which is enduring, is that by grace we have found ourselves the recipients of God's kindness in Christ, clothed in His righteousness, forgiven of our sins, children of God and joint heirs with Jesus. What a source for joy is ours in Christ!