THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - March 10 - Full Text

Friday, March 10, 2017

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - March 10 - Full Text - Shabbat Shalom!

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

MARCH 10

PSALMS: 10, 40, 70, 100, 130

PROVERBS: 10

OLD TESTAMENT: 2 SAMUEL 15:23 - 16:23

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 18:25 - 19:22

PSALMS: 10

¹Why, ^A O LORD, do you stand far off?

Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

²In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,

who are caught in the schemes he devises.

³He boasts of the cravings of his heart;

he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

⁴In his pride the wicked does not seek him;

in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

⁵His ways are always prosperous;

he is haughty and your laws are far from him;

he sneers at all his enemies.

⁶He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me;

I'll always be happy and never have trouble."

⁷His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;

trouble and evil are under his tongue.

⁸He lies in wait near the villages;

from ambush he murders the innocent,

watching in secret for his victims.

⁹He lies in wait like a lion in cover;

he lies in wait to catch the helpless;

he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

¹⁰His victims are crushed, they collapse;

they fall under his strength.

¹¹He says to himself, "God has forgotten;

he covers his face and never sees." ¹

¹²Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.

Do not forget the helpless.

¹³Why does the wicked man revile God?

Why does he say to himself,

"He won't call me to account"?

¹⁴But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;

you consider it to take it in hand.

The victim commits himself to you;

you are the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;

call him to account for his wickedness

that would not be found out.

¹⁶The LORD is King for ever and ever;

the nations will perish from his land.

¹⁷You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;

you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,

¹⁸defending the fatherless and the oppressed,

in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more. ²

PSALMS: 40

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

¹I waited patiently for the LORD;

he turned to me and heard my cry.

²He lifted me out of the slimy pit,

out of the mud and mire;

he set my feet on a rock

and gave me a firm place to stand.

³He put a new song in my mouth,

a hymn of praise to our God.

Many will see and fear

and put their trust in the LORD.

⁴Blessed is the man

who makes the LORD his trust,

who does not look to the proud,

to those who turn aside to false gods. ^A

⁵Many, O LORD my God,

are the wonders you have done.

The things you planned for us

no one can recount to you;

were I to speak and tell of them,

they would be too many to declare.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,

but my ears you have pierced ^BC;

burnt offerings and sin offerings

you did not require.

⁷Then I said, "Here I am, I have come--

it is written about me in the scroll. ^D ³

⁸I desire to do your will, O my God;

your law is within my heart."

⁹I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly;

I do not seal my lips,

as you know, O LORD.

¹⁰I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;

I speak of your faithfulness and salvation.

I do not conceal your love and your truth

from the great assembly.

¹¹Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD;

may your love and your truth always protect me.

¹²For troubles without number surround me;

my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.

They are more than the hairs of my head,

and my heart fails within me.

¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to save me;

O LORD, come quickly to help me.

¹⁴May all who seek to take my life

be put to shame and confusion;

may all who desire my ruin

be turned back in disgrace.

¹⁵May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"

be appalled at their own shame.

¹⁶But may all who seek you

rejoice and be glad in you;

may those who love your salvation always say,

"The LORD be exalted!" ⁴

¹⁷Yet I am poor and needy;

may the Lord think of me.

You are my help and my deliverer;

O my God, do not delay. ⁵

PSALMS: 70

For the director of music. Of David. A petition.

¹Hasten, O God, to save me;

O LORD, come quickly to help me.

²May those who seek my life

be put to shame and confusion;

may all who desire my ruin

be turned back in disgrace.

³May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"

turn back because of their shame.

⁴But may all who seek you

rejoice and be glad in you;

may those who love your salvation always say,

"Let God be exalted!"

⁵Yet I am poor and needy;

come quickly to me, O God.

You are my help and my deliverer;

O LORD, do not delay. ⁶

PSALMS: 100

A psalm. For giving thanks.

¹Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

²Worship the LORD with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

³Know that the LORD is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his ^A;

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

⁵For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations. ⁷

PSALMS: 130

A song of ascents.

¹Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;

²O Lord, hear my voice.

Let your ears be attentive

to my cry for mercy.

³If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,

O Lord, who could stand?

⁴But with you there is forgiveness;

therefore you are feared.

⁵I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,

and in his word I put my hope.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen wait for the morning,

more than watchmen wait for the morning.

⁷O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,

for with the LORD is unfailing love

and with him is full redemption.

⁸He himself will redeem Israel

from all their sins. ⁸

PROVERBS: 10

10 ¹The proverbs of Solomon:

A wise son brings joy to his father,

but a foolish son grief to his mother.

²Ill-gotten treasures are of no value,

but righteousness delivers from death.

³The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry

but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

⁴Lazy hands make a man poor,

but diligent hands bring wealth.

⁵He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,

but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

⁶Blessings crown the head of the righteous,

but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. ^A

⁷The memory of the righteous will be a blessing,

but the name of the wicked will rot.

⁸The wise in heart accept commands,

but a chattering fool comes to ruin.

⁹The man of integrity walks securely,

but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

¹⁰He who winks maliciously causes grief,

and a chattering fool comes to ruin.

¹¹The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,

but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. ⁹

¹²Hatred stirs up dissension,

but love covers over all wrongs.

¹³Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,

but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.

¹⁴Wise men store up knowledge,

but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.

¹⁵The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,

but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

¹⁶The wages of the righteous bring them life,

but the income of the wicked brings them punishment.

¹⁷He who heeds discipline shows the way to life,

but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.

¹⁸He who conceals his hatred has lying lips,

and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

¹⁹When words are many, sin is not absent,

but he who holds his tongue is wise.

²⁰The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,

but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

²¹The lips of the righteous nourish many,

but fools die for lack of judgment.

²²The blessing of the LORD brings wealth,

and he adds no trouble to it. ¹⁰

²³A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct,

but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.

²⁴What the wicked dreads will overtake him;

what the righteous desire will be granted.

²⁵When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,

but the righteous stand firm forever.

²⁶As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,

so is a sluggard to those who send him.

²⁷The fear of the LORD adds length to life,

but the years of the wicked are cut short.

²⁸The prospect of the righteous is joy,

but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.

²⁹The way of the LORD is a refuge for the righteous,

but it is the ruin of those who do evil.

³⁰The righteous will never be uprooted,

but the wicked will not remain in the land.

³¹The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,

but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

³²The lips of the righteous know what is fitting,

but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. ¹¹

OLD TESTAMENT: 2 SAMUEL 15:23 - 16:23

²³The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by. The king also crossed the Kidron Valley, and all the people moved on toward the desert.

²⁴Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices ^C until all the people had finished leaving the city.

²⁵Then the king said to Zadok, "Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.

²⁶But if he says, `I am not pleased with you,' then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him."

²⁷The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan son of Abiathar. You and Abiathar take your two sons with you. ²⁸I will wait at the fords in the desert until word comes from you to inform me." ²⁹So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and stayed there.

³⁰But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up. ³¹Now David had been told, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." So David prayed, "O LORD, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness."

³²When David arrived at the summit, where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head. ³³David said to him, "If you go with me, ¹² you will be a burden to me. ³⁴But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, `I will be your servant, O king; I was your father's servant in the past, but now I will be your servant,' then you can help me by frustrating Ahithophel's advice.

³⁵Won't the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king's palace. ³⁶Their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear."

³⁷So David's friend Hushai arrived at Jerusalem as Absalom was entering the city.

16 ¹When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.

²The king asked Ziba, "Why have you brought these?"

Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the desert."

³The king then asked, "Where is your master's grandson?"

Ziba said to him, "He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, `Today the house of Israel will give me back my grandfather's kingdom.'" ¹³ ⁴Then the king said to Ziba, "All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours."

"I humbly bow," Ziba said. "May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king."

⁵As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul's family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out. ⁶He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left. ⁷As he cursed, Shimei said, "Get out, get out, you man of blood, you scoundrel! ⁸The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a man of blood!"

⁹Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head."

¹⁰But the king said, "What do you and I have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD said to him, `Curse David,' who can ask, `Why do you do this?' "

¹¹David then said to Abishai and all his officials, "My son, who is of my own flesh, is trying to take my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to. ¹²It may be that the LORD will see my distress and repay ¹⁴ me with good for the cursing I am receiving today."

¹³So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing stones at him and showering him with dirt. ¹⁴The king and all the people with him arrived at their destination exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.

¹⁵Meanwhile, Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. ¹⁶Then Hushai the Arkite, David's friend, went to Absalom and said to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

¹⁷Absalom asked Hushai, "Is this the love you show your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"

¹⁸Hushai said to Absalom, "No, the one chosen by the LORD, by these people, and by all the men of Israel--his I will be, and I will remain with him. ¹⁹Furthermore, whom should I serve? Should I not serve the son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you."

²⁰Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice. What should we do?"

²¹Ahithophel answered, "Lie with your father's concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench in your father's nostrils, and the hands of everyone with you will be strengthened."

²²So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he lay with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. ¹⁵ ²³Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all of Ahithophel's advice. ¹⁶

NEW TESTAMENT: JOHN 18:25 - 19:22

²⁵As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, "You are not one of his disciples, are you?"

He denied it, saying, "I am not."

²⁶One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, "Didn't I see you with him in the olive grove?" ²⁷Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.

²⁸Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. ²⁹So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What charges are you bringing against this man?"

³⁰"If he were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you."

³¹Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law."

"But we have no right to execute anyone," the Jews objected. ³²This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.

³³Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

³⁴"Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?"

³⁵"Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"

³⁶Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my ¹⁷servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."

³⁷"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.

Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

³⁸"What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. ³⁹But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release `the king of the Jews'?"

⁴⁰They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion.

19 ¹Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. ²The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe ³and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face.

⁴Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." ⁵When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"

⁶As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" ¹⁸ But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."

⁷The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

⁸When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, ⁹and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰"Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"

¹¹Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

¹²From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."

¹³When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). ¹⁴It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour.

"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.

¹⁵But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!"

"Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked.

"We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.

¹⁶Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. ¹⁷Carrying his own cross, ¹⁹he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). ¹⁸Here they crucified him, and with him two others--one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. ²¹The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write `The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."

²²Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." ²⁰

John 3:16-21 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." H

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