THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: June 11

Thursday, October 22, 2009

June 11

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

JUNE 11

PSALMS: 11, 41, 71, 101, 131

PROVERBS: 11

OLD TESTAMENT

JOB 37:1 - 39:30

NEW TESTAMENT

2 CORINTHIANS 4:13 - 5:10

PSALMS: 11

For the director of music. Of David.

1In the LORD I take refuge.

How then can you say to me:

"Flee like a bird to your mountain.

2For look, the wicked bend their bows;

they set their arrows against the strings

to shoot from the shadows

at the upright in heart.

3When the foundations are being destroyed,

what can the righteous doA?"

4The LORD is in his holy temple;

the LORD is on his heavenly throne.

He observes the sons of men;

his eyes examine them.

5The LORD examines the righteous,

but the wickedB and those who love violence

his soul hates.

6On the wicked he will rain

fiery coals and burning sulfur;

a scorching wind will be their lot.

7For the LORD is righteous,

he loves justice;

upright men will see his face. [1]

PSALMS: 41

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1Blessed is he who has regard for the weak;

the LORD delivers him in times of trouble.

2The LORD will protect him and preserve his life;

he will bless him in the land

and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.

3The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed

and restore him from his bed of illness.

4I said, "O LORD, have mercy on me;

heal me, for I have sinned against you."

5My enemies say of me in malice,

"When will he die and his name perish?"

6Whenever one comes to see me,

he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;

then he goes out and spreads it abroad.

7All my enemies whisper together against me;

they imagine the worst for me, saying,

8"A vile disease has beset him;

he will never get up from the place where he lies."

9Even my close friend, whom I trusted,

he who shared my bread,

has lifted up his heel against me. [2]

10But you, O LORD, have mercy on me;

raise me up, that I may repay them.

11I know that you are pleased with me,

for my enemy does not triumph over me.

12In my integrity you uphold me

and set me in your presence forever.

13Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Amen and Amen [3]

PSALMS: 71

1In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame.

2Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness;

turn your ear to me and save me.

3Be my rock of refuge,

to which I can always go;

give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and my fortress.

4Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,

from the grasp of evil and cruel men.

5For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD,

my confidence since my youth.

6From birth I have relied on you;

you brought me forth from my mother's womb.

I will ever praise you.

7I have become like a portent to many,

but you are my strong refuge.

8My mouth is filled with your praise,

declaring your splendor all day long.

9Do not cast me away when I am old;

do not forsake me when my strength is gone.

10For my enemies speak against me;

those who wait to kill me conspire together.

11They say, "God has forsaken him;

pursue him and seize him,

for no one will rescue him."

12Be not far from me, O God;

come quickly, O my God, to help me.

13May my accusers perish in shame;

may those who want to harm me

be covered with scorn and disgrace.[4]

14But as for me, I will always have hope;

I will praise you more and more.

15My mouth will tell of your righteousness,

of your salvation all day long,

though I know not its measure.

16I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, O Sovereign LORD;

I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.

17Since my youth, O God, you have taught me,

and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

18Even when I am old and gray,

do not forsake me, O God,

till I declare your power to the next generation,

your might to all who are to come.

19Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God,

you who have done great things.

Who, O God, is like you?

20Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter,

you will restore my life again;

from the depths of the earth

you will again bring me up.

21You will increase my honor

and comfort me once again.

22I will praise you with the harp

for your faithfulness, O my God;

I will sing praise to you with the lyre,

O Holy One of Israel.

23My lips will shout for joy

when I sing praise to you--

I, whom you have redeemed.

24My tongue will tell of your righteous acts [5]

all day long,

for those who wanted to harm me

have been put to shame and confusion. [6]

PSALMS: 101

Of David. A psalm.

1I will sing of your love and justice;

to you, O LORD, I will sing praise.

2I will be careful to lead a blameless life--

when will you come to me?

I will walk in my house

with blameless heart.

3I will set before my eyes

no vile thing.

The deeds of faithless men I hate;

they will not cling to me.

4Men of perverse heart shall be far from me;

I will have nothing to do with evil.

5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,

him will I put to silence;

whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,

him will I not endure.

6My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he whose walk is blameless

will minister to me.[7]

7No one who practices deceit

will dwell in my house;

no one who speaks falsely

will stand in my presence.

8Every morning I will put to silence

all the wicked in the land;

I will cut off every evildoer

from the city of the LORD. [8]

PSALMS: 131

A song of ascents. Of David.

1My heart is not proud, O LORD,

my eyes are not haughty;

I do not concern myself with great matters

or things too wonderful for me.

2But I have stilled and quieted my soul;

like a weaned child with its mother,

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3O Israel, put your hope in the LORD

both now and forevermore. [9]

PROVERBS: 11

111 The LORD abhors dishonest scales,

but accurate weights are his delight.

2When pride comes, then comes disgrace,

but with humility comes wisdom.

3The integrity of the upright guides them,

but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.

4Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,

but righteousness delivers from death.

5The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them,

but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.

6The righteousness of the upright delivers them,

but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.

7When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes;

all he expected from his power comes to nothing.

8The righteous man is rescued from trouble,

and it comes on the wicked instead.

9With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor,

but through knowledge the righteous escape.

10When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;

when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

11Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,

but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.[10]

12A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor,

but a man of understanding holds his tongue.

13A gossip betrays a confidence,

but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.

14For lack of guidance a nation falls,

but many advisers make victory sure.

15He who puts up security for another will surely suffer,

but whoever refuses to strike hands in pledge is safe.

16A kindhearted woman gains respect,

but ruthless men gain only wealth.

17A kind man benefits himself,

but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

18The wicked man earns deceptive wages,

but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

19The truly righteous man attains life,

but he who pursues evil goes to his death.

20The LORD detests men of perverse heart

but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.

21Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,

but those who are righteous will go free.[11]

22Like a gold ring in a pig's snout

is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

23The desire of the righteous ends only in good,

but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.

24One man gives freely, yet gains even more;

another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

25A generous man will prosper;

he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

26People curse the man who hoards grain,

but blessing crowns him who is willing to sell.

27He who seeks good finds goodwill,

but evil comes to him who searches for it.

28Whoever trusts in his riches will fall,

but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

29He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind,

and the fool will be servant to the wise.

30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,

and he who wins souls is wise.

31If the righteous receive their due on earth,

how much more the ungodly and the sinner! [12]

OLD TESTAMENT

JOB 37:1 - 39:30

371 "At this my heart pounds

and leaps from its place.

2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice,

to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven

and sends it to the ends of the earth.

4After that comes the sound of his roar;

he thunders with his majestic voice.

When his voice resounds,

he holds nothing back.

5God's voice thunders in marvelous ways;

he does great things beyond our understanding.

6He says to the snow, `Fall on the earth,'

and to the rain shower, `Be a mighty downpour.'

7So that all men he has made may know his work,

he stops every man from his labor.A

8The animals take cover;

they remain in their dens.

9The tempest comes out from its chamber,

the cold from the driving winds.

10The breath of God produces ice,

and the broad waters become frozen.

11He loads the clouds with moisture;

he scatters his lightning through them.

12At his direction they swirl around [13]

over the face of the whole earth

to do whatever he commands them.

13He brings the clouds to punish men,

or to water his earthB and show his love.

14"Listen to this, Job;

stop and consider God's wonders.

15Do you know how God controls the clouds

and makes his lightning flash?

16Do you know how the clouds hang poised,

those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?

17You who swelter in your clothes

when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

18can you join him in spreading out the skies,

hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

19"Tell us what we should say to him;

we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

20Should he be told that I want to speak?

Would any man ask to be swallowed up?

21Now no one can look at the sun,

bright as it is in the skies

after the wind has swept them clean.

22Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;

God comes in awesome majesty.

23The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; [14]

in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.

24Therefore, men revere him,

for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?C"

381Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:

2"Who is this that darkens my counsel

with words without knowledge?

3Brace yourself like a man;

I will question you,

and you shall answer me.

4"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?

Tell me, if you understand.

5Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6On what were its footings set,

or who laid its cornerstone--

7while the morning stars sang together

and all the angelsA shouted for joy?

8"Who shut up the sea behind doors [15]

when it burst forth from the womb,

9when I made the clouds its garment

and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10when I fixed limits for it

and set its doors and bars in place,

11when I said, `This far you may come and no farther;

here is where your proud waves halt'?

12"Have you ever given orders to the morning,

or shown the dawn its place,

13that it might take the earth by the edges

and shake the wicked out of it?

14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;

its features stand out like those of a garment.

15The wicked are denied their light,

and their upraised arm is broken.

16"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea

or walked in the recesses of the deep?

17Have the gates of death been shown to you?

Have you seen the gates of the shadow of deathB?

18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

19"What is the way to the abode of light?

And where does darkness reside? [16]

20Can you take them to their places?

Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

21Surely you know, for you were already born!

You have lived so many years!

22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow

or seen the storehouses of the hail,

23which I reserve for times of trouble,

for days of war and battle?

24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,

or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,

and a path for the thunderstorm,

26to water a land where no man lives,

a desert with no one in it,

27to satisfy a desolate wasteland

and make it sprout with grass?

28Does the rain have a father?

Who fathers the drops of dew?

29From whose womb comes the ice?

Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

30when the waters become hard as stone,

when the surface of the deep is frozen? [17]

31"Can you bind the beautifulC Pleiades?

Can you loose the cords of Orion?

32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasonsD

or lead out the BearE with its cubs?

33Do you know the laws of the heavens?

Can you set up God'sF dominion over the earth?

34"Can you raise your voice to the clouds

and cover yourself with a flood of water?

35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?

Do they report to you, `Here we are'?

36Who endowed the heartG with wisdom

or gave understanding to the mindH?

37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

38when the dust becomes hard

and the clods of earth stick together?

39"Do you hunt the prey for the lioness

and satisfy the hunger of the lions

40when they crouch in their dens

or lie in wait in a thicket?

41Who provides food for the raven

when its young cry out to God

and wander about for lack of food? [18]

391 "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?

Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

2Do you count the months till they bear?

Do you know the time they give birth?

3They crouch down and bring forth their young;

their labor pains are ended.

4Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;

they leave and do not return.

5"Who let the wild donkey go free?

Who untied his ropes?

6I gave him the wasteland as his home,

the salt flats as his habitat.

7He laughs at the commotion in the town;

he does not hear a driver's shout.

8He ranges the hills for his pasture

and searches for any green thing.

9"Will the wild ox consent to serve you?

Will he stay by your manger at night?

10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness?

Will he till the valleys behind you?

11Will you rely on him for his great strength?

Will you leave your heavy work to him?

12Can you trust him to bring in your grain [19]

and gather it to your threshing floor?

13"The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,

but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

14She lays her eggs on the ground

and lets them warm in the sand,

15unmindful that a foot may crush them,

that some wild animal may trample them.

16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;

she cares not that her labor was in vain,

17for God did not endow her with wisdom

or give her a share of good sense.

18Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,

she laughs at horse and rider.

19"Do you give the horse his strength

or clothe his neck with a flowing mane?

20Do you make him leap like a locust,

striking terror with his proud snorting?

21He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength,

and charges into the fray.

22He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;

he does not shy away from the sword.

23The quiver rattles against his side,

along with the flashing spear and lance.

24In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; [20]

he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

25At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, `Aha!'

He catches the scent of battle from afar,

the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

26"Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom

and spread his wings toward the south?

27Does the eagle soar at your command

and build his nest on high?

28He dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;

a rocky crag is his stronghold.

29From there he seeks out his food;

his eyes detect it from afar.

30His young ones feast on blood,

and where the slain are, there is he." [21]

NEW TESTAMENT

2 CORINTHIANS 4:13 - 5:10

13It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."B With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

51Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

6Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7We live by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. [22]

^{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. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸Whoever 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 ¹⁹This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. ²¹But 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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