THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: June 7

Thursday, October 22, 2009

June 7

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

JUNE 7

PSALMS: 7, 37, 67, 97, 127

PROVERBS: 7

OLD TESTAMENT

JOB 23:1 - 27:23

NEW TESTAMENT

2 CORINTHIANS 1:12 - 2:11

PSALMS: 7

A shiggaionA of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.

1O LORD my God, I take refuge in you;

save and deliver me from all who pursue me,

2or they will tear me like a lion

and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

3O LORD my God, if I have done this

and there is guilt on my hands--

4if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me

or without cause have robbed my foe--

5then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;

let him trample my life to the ground

and make me sleep in the dust.

Selah

6Arise, O LORD, in your anger;

rise up against the rage of my enemies.

Awake, my God; decree justice.

7Let the assembled peoples gather around you.

Rule over them from on high;

8let the LORD judge the peoples.

Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,

according to my integrity, O Most High.

9O righteous God,

who searches minds and hearts,

bring to an end the violence of the wicked

and make the righteous secure. [1]

10My shieldB is God Most High,

who saves the upright in heart.

11God is a righteous judge,

a God who expresses his wrath every day.

12If he does not relent,

heC will sharpen his sword;

he will bend and string his bow.

13He has prepared his deadly weapons;

he makes ready his flaming arrows.

14He who is pregnant with evil

and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.

15He who digs a hole and scoops it out

falls into the pit he has made.

16The trouble he causes recoils on himself;

his violence comes down on his own head.

17I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness

and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. [2]

PSALMS: 37

Of David.

1DoA not fret because of evil men

or be envious of those who do wrong;

2for like the grass they will soon wither,

like green plants they will soon die away.

3Trust in the LORD and do good;

dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

4Delight yourself in the LORD

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5Commit your way to the LORD;

trust in him and he will do this:

6He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,

the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;

do not fret when men succeed in their ways,

when they carry out their wicked schemes.

8Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;

do not fret--it leads only to evil.

9For evil men will be cut off,

but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

10A little while, and the wicked will be no more;

though you look for them, they will not be found.

11But the meek will inherit the land

and enjoy great peace. [3]

12The wicked plot against the righteous

and gnash their teeth at them;

13but the Lord laughs at the wicked,

for he knows their day is coming.

14The wicked draw the sword

and bend the bow

to bring down the poor and needy,

to slay those whose ways are upright.

15But their swords will pierce their own hearts,

and their bows will be broken.

16Better the little that the righteous have

than the wealth of many wicked;

17for the power of the wicked will be broken,

but the LORD upholds the righteous.

18The days of the blameless are known to the LORD,

and their inheritance will endure forever.

19In times of disaster they will not wither;

in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.

20But the wicked will perish:

The LORD's enemies will be like the beauty of the fields,

they will vanish--vanish like smoke.

21The wicked borrow and do not repay,

but the righteous give generously;

22those the LORD blesses will inherit the land,

but those he curses will be cut off.[4]

23If the LORD delights in a man's way,

he makes his steps firm;

24though he stumble, he will not fall,

for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

25I was young and now I am old,

yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken

or their children begging bread.

26They are always generous and lend freely;

their children will be blessed.

27Turn from evil and do good;

then you will dwell in the land forever.

28For the LORD loves the just

and will not forsake his faithful ones.

They will be protected forever,

but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;

29the righteous will inherit the land

and dwell in it forever.

30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom,

and his tongue speaks what is just.

31The law of his God is in his heart;

his feet do not slip.

32The wicked lie in wait for the righteous,

seeking their very lives;

33but the LORD will not leave them in their power

or let them be condemned when brought to trial. [5]

34Wait for the LORD

and keep his way.

He will exalt you to inherit the land;

when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

35I have seen a wicked and ruthless man

flourishing like a green tree in its native soil,

36but he soon passed away and was no more;

though I looked for him, he could not be found.

37Consider the blameless, observe the upright;

there is a futureB for the man of peace.

38But all sinners will be destroyed;

the futureC of the wicked will be cut off.

39The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD;

he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

40The LORD helps them and delivers them;

he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,

because they take refuge in him. [6]

PSALMS: 67

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.

1May God be gracious to us and bless us

and make his face shine upon us,

Selah

2that your ways may be known on earth,

your salvation among all nations.

3May the peoples praise you, O God;

may all the peoples praise you.

4May the nations be glad and sing for joy,

for you rule the peoples justly

and guide the nations of the earth.

Selah

5May the peoples praise you, O God;

may all the peoples praise you.

6Then the land will yield its harvest,

and God, our God, will bless us.

7God will bless us,

and all the ends of the earth will fear him. [7]

PSALMS: 97

1The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;

let the distant shores rejoice.

2Clouds and thick darkness surround him;

righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

3Fire goes before him

and consumes his foes on every side.

4His lightning lights up the world;

the earth sees and trembles.

5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,

before the Lord of all the earth.

6The heavens proclaim his righteousness,

and all the peoples see his glory.

7All who worship images are put to shame,

those who boast in idols--

worship him, all you gods!

8Zion hears and rejoices

and the villages of Judah are glad

because of your judgments, O LORD.

9For you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth;

you are exalted far above all gods.

10Let those who love the LORD hate evil,

for he guards the lives of his faithful ones

and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11Light is shed upon the righteous

and joy on the upright in heart.

12Rejoice in the LORD, you who are righteous,

and praise his holy name. [8]

PSALMS: 127

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.

1Unless the LORD builds the house,

its builders labor in vain.

Unless the LORD watches over the city,

the watchmen stand guard in vain.

2In vain you rise early

and stay up late,

toiling for food to eat--

for he grants sleep toA those he loves.

3Sons are a heritage from the LORD,

children a reward from him.

4Like arrows in the hands of a warrior

are sons born in one's youth.

5Blessed is the man

whose quiver is full of them.

They will not be put to shame

when they contend with their enemies in the gate. [9]

PROVERBS: 7

71 My son, keep my words

and store up my commands within you.

2Keep my commands and you will live;

guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

3Bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart.

4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"

and call understanding your kinsman;

5they will keep you from the adulteress,

from the wayward wife with her seductive words.

6At the window of my house

I looked out through the lattice.

7I saw among the simple,

I noticed among the young men,

a youth who lacked judgment.

8He was going down the street near her corner,

walking along in the direction of her house

9at twilight, as the day was fading,

as the dark of night set in.

10Then out came a woman to meet him,

dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

11(She is loud and defiant,

her feet never stay at home;

12now in the street, now in the squares,

at every corner she lurks.)

13She took hold of him and kissed him

and with a brazen face she said:

14"I have fellowship offeringsA at home;

today I fulfilled my vows.

15So I came out to meet you; [10]

I looked for you and have found you!

16I have covered my bed

with colored linens from Egypt.

17I have perfumed my bed

with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

18Come, let's drink deep of love till morning;

let's enjoy ourselves with love!

19My husband is not at home;

he has gone on a long journey.

20He took his purse filled with money

and will not be home till full moon."

21With persuasive words she led him astray;

she seduced him with her smooth talk.

22All at once he followed her

like an ox going to the slaughter,

like a deerB stepping into a nooseC

23 till an arrow pierces his liver,

like a bird darting into a snare,

little knowing it will cost him his life.

24Now then, my sons, listen to me;

pay attention to what I say.

25Do not let your heart turn to her ways

or stray into her paths.

26Many are the victims she has brought down;

her slain are a mighty throng.

27Her house is a highway to the grave,D

leading down to the chambers of death. [11]

OLD TESTAMENT

JOB 23:1 - 27:23

231Then Job replied:

2"Even today my complaint is bitter;

his handA is heavy in spite ofB my groaning.

3If only I knew where to find him;

if only I could go to his dwelling!

4I would state my case before him

and fill my mouth with arguments.

5I would find out what he would answer me,

and consider what he would say.

6Would he oppose me with great power?

No, he would not press charges against me.

7There an upright man could present his case before him,

and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

8"But if I go to the east, he is not there;

if I go to the west, I do not find him.

9When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;

when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.

10But he knows the way that I take;

when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

11My feet have closely followed his steps;

I have kept to his way without turning aside.

12I have not departed from the commands of his lips;

I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread. [12]

13"But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?

He does whatever he pleases.

14He carries out his decree against me,

and many such plans he still has in store.

15That is why I am terrified before him;

when I think of all this, I fear him.

16God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me.

17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

241 "Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?

Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?

2Men move boundary stones;

they pasture flocks they have stolen.

3They drive away the orphan's donkey

and take the widow's ox in pledge.

4They thrust the needy from the path

and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

5Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go about their labor of foraging food;

the wasteland provides food for their children.

6They gather fodder in the fields

and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; [13]

they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

8They are drenched by mountain rains

and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;

the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

10Lacking clothes, they go about naked;

they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

11They crush olives among the terracesA;

they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

12The groans of the dying rise from the city,

and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.

But God charges no one with wrongdoing.

13"There are those who rebel against the light,

who do not know its ways

or stay in its paths.

14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up

and kills the poor and needy;

in the night he steals forth like a thief.

15The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;

he thinks, `No eye will see me,'

and he keeps his face concealed.

16In the dark, men break into houses,

but by day they shut themselves in;

they want nothing to do with the light.

17For all of them, deep darkness is their morningB; [14]

they make friends with the terrors of darkness.C

18"Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;

their portion of the land is cursed,

so that no one goes to the vineyards.

19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,

so the graveD snatches away those who have sinned.

20The womb forgets them,

the worm feasts on them;

evil men are no longer remembered

but are broken like a tree.

21They prey on the barren and childless woman,

and to the widow show no kindness.

22But God drags away the mighty by his power;

though they become established, they have no assurance of life.

23He may let them rest in a feeling of security,

but his eyes are on their ways.

24For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;

they are brought low and gathered up like all others;

they are cut off like heads of grain.

25"If this is not so, who can prove me false

and reduce my words to nothing?" [15]

251Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2"Dominion and awe belong to God;

he establishes order in the heights of heaven.

3Can his forces be numbered?

Upon whom does his light not rise?

4How then can a man be righteous before God?

How can one born of woman be pure?

5If even the moon is not bright

and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

6how much less man, who is but a maggot--

a son of man, who is only a worm!"

261Then Job replied:

2"How you have helped the powerless!

How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

3What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

And what great insight you have displayed!

4Who has helped you utter these words?

And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

5"The dead are in deep anguish,

those beneath the waters and all that live in them. [16]

6DeathA is naked before God;

DestructionB lies uncovered.

7He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;

he suspends the earth over nothing.

8He wraps up the waters in his clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

9He covers the face of the full moon,

spreading his clouds over it.

10He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters

for a boundary between light and darkness.

11The pillars of the heavens quake,

aghast at his rebuke.

12By his power he churned up the sea;

by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

13By his breath the skies became fair;

his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

14And these are but the outer fringe of his works;

how faint the whisper we hear of him!

Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"

271And Job continued his discourse:

2"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,

the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,

3as long as I have life within me,

the breath of God in my nostrils, [17]

4my lips will not speak wickedness,

and my tongue will utter no deceit.

5I will never admit you are in the right;

till I die, I will not deny my integrity.

6I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it;

my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

7"May my enemies be like the wicked,

my adversaries like the unjust!

8For what hope has the godless when he is cut off,

when God takes away his life?

9Does God listen to his cry

when distress comes upon him?

10Will he find delight in the Almighty?

Will he call upon God at all times?

11"I will teach you about the power of God;

the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

12You have all seen this yourselves.

Why then this meaningless talk?

13"Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,

the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:

14However many his children, their fate is the sword;

his offspring will never have enough to eat.

15The plague will bury those who survive him, [18]

and their widows will not weep for them.

16Though he heaps up silver like dust

and clothes like piles of clay,

17what he lays up the righteous will wear,

and the innocent will divide his silver.

18The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon,

like a hut made by a watchman.

19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;

when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

20Terrors overtake him like a flood;

a tempest snatches him away in the night.

21The east wind carries him off, and he is gone;

it sweeps him out of his place.

22It hurls itself against him without mercy

as he flees headlong from its power.

23It claps its hands in derision

and hisses him out of his place. [19]

NEW TESTAMENT

2 CORINTHIANS 1:12 - 2:11

12Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace. 13For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, 14as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice. 16I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. 17When I planned this, did I do it lightly? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say, "Yes, yes" and "No, no"?

18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes" and "No." 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and SilasB and Timothy, was not "Yes" and "No," but in him it has always been "Yes." 20For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

23I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. 24Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.

21So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. 2For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? 3I wrote as I did so that when I came I should not be distressed by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. 4For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent--not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven--if there was anything to forgive--I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. [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. 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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