THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: May 6

Friday, October 23, 2009

May 6

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

MAY 6

PSALMS: 6, 36, 66, 96, 126

PROVERBS: 6

OLD TESTAMENT

2 CHRONICLES 17:1 - 18:24

NEW TESTAMENT

ROMANS 9:25 - 10:13

PSALMS: 6

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith.A A psalm of David.

1O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger

or discipline me in your wrath.

2Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint;

O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

3My soul is in anguish.

How long, O LORD, how long?

4Turn, O LORD, and deliver me;

save me because of your unfailing love.

5No one remembers you when he is dead.

Who praises you from the graveB?

6I am worn out from groaning;

all night long I flood my bed with weeping

and drench my couch with tears.

7My eyes grow weak with sorrow;

they fail because of all my foes.

8Away from me, all you who do evil,

for the LORD has heard my weeping.

9The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

10All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;

they will turn back in sudden disgrace. [1]

PSALMS: 36

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD.

1An oracle is within my heart

concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:A

There is no fear of God

before his eyes.

2For in his own eyes he flatters himself

too much to detect or hate his sin.

3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;

he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

4Even on his bed he plots evil;

he commits himself to a sinful course

and does not reject what is wrong.

5Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the skies.

6Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,

your justice like the great deep.

O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.

7How priceless is your unfailing love!

Both high and low among men

findB refuge in the shadow of your wings.

8They feast on the abundance of your house;

you give them drink from your river of delights.

9For with you is the fountain of life;

in your light we see light.

10Continue your love to those who know you,

your righteousness to the upright in heart.

11May the foot of the proud not come against me, [2]

nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

12See how the evildoers lie fallen--

thrown down, not able to rise! [3]

PSALMS: 66

For the director of music. A song. A psalm.

1Shout with joy to God, all the earth!

2Sing the glory of his name;

make his praise glorious!

3Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power

that your enemies cringe before you.

4All the earth bows down to you;

they sing praise to you,

they sing praise to your name."

Selah

5Come and see what God has done,

how awesome his works in man's behalf!

6He turned the sea into dry land,

they passed through the waters on foot--

come, let us rejoice in him.

7He rules forever by his power,

his eyes watch the nations--

let not the rebellious rise up against him.

Selah

8Praise our God, O peoples,

let the sound of his praise be heard;

9he has preserved our lives

and kept our feet from slipping.

10For you, O God, tested us;

you refined us like silver.

11You brought us into prison

and laid burdens on our backs.

12You let men ride over our heads; [4]

we went through fire and water,

but you brought us to a place of abundance.

13I will come to your temple with burnt offerings

and fulfill my vows to you--

14vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke

when I was in trouble.

15I will sacrifice fat animals to you

and an offering of rams;

I will offer bulls and goats.

Selah

16Come and listen, all you who fear God;

let me tell you what he has done for me.

17I cried out to him with my mouth;

his praise was on my tongue.

18If I had cherished sin in my heart,

the Lord would not have listened;

19but God has surely listened

and heard my voice in prayer.

20Praise be to God,

who has not rejected my prayer

or withheld his love from me! [5]

PSALMS: 96

1Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all the earth.

2Sing to the LORD, praise his name;

proclaim his salvation day after day.

3Declare his glory among the nations,

his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

4For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;

he is to be feared above all gods.

5For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but the LORD made the heavens.

6Splendor and majesty are before him;

strength and glory are in his sanctuary.

7Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

8Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

bring an offering and come into his courts.

9Worship the LORD in the splendor of hisA holiness;

tremble before him, all the earth.

10Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."

The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;

he will judge the peoples with equity.

11Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;

let the sea resound, and all that is in it;

12let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.

Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;

13they will sing before the LORD, for he comes,

he comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

and the peoples in his truth. [6]

PSALMS: 126

A song of ascents.

1When the LORD brought back the captives toA Zion,

we were like men who dreamed.B

2Our mouths were filled with laughter,

our tongues with songs of joy.

Then it was said among the nations,

"The LORD has done great things for them."

3The LORD has done great things for us,

and we are filled with joy.

4Restore our fortunes,C O LORD,

like streams in the Negev.

5Those who sow in tears

will reap with songs of joy.

6He who goes out weeping,

carrying seed to sow,

will return with songs of joy,

carrying sheaves with him. [7]

PROVERBS: 6

61 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,

if you have struck hands in pledge for another,

2if you have been trapped by what you said,

ensnared by the words of your mouth,

3then do this, my son, to free yourself,

since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:

Go and humble yourself;

press your plea with your neighbor!

4Allow no sleep to your eyes,

no slumber to your eyelids.

5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, you sluggard;

consider its ways and be wise!

7It has no commander,

no overseer or ruler,

8yet it stores its provisions in summer

and gathers its food at harvest.

9How long will you lie there, you sluggard?

When will you get up from your sleep?

10A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest--

11and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man.A

12A scoundrel and villain,

who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13 who winks with his eye,

signals with his feet

and motions with his fingers,

14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart--

he always stirs up dissension.

15Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; [8]

he will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.

16There are six things the LORD hates,

seven that are detestable to him:

17haughty eyes,

a lying tongue,

hands that shed innocent blood,

18a heart that devises wicked schemes,

feet that are quick to rush into evil,

19a false witness who pours out lies

and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

20My son, keep your father's commands

and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

21Bind them upon your heart forever;

fasten them around your neck.

22When you walk, they will guide you;

when you sleep, they will watch over you;

when you awake, they will speak to you.

23For these commands are a lamp,

this teaching is a light,

and the corrections of discipline

are the way to life,

24keeping you from the immoral woman,

from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.

25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty

or let her captivate you with her eyes,

26for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,

and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

27Can a man scoop fire into his lap

without his clothes being burned?

28Can a man walk on hot coals

without his feet being scorched?

29So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; [9]

no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30Men do not despise a thief if he steals

to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

31Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,

though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

32But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;

whoever does so destroys himself.

33Blows and disgrace are his lot,

and his shame will never be wiped away;

34for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,

and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35He will not accept any compensation;

he will refuse the bribe, however great it is. [10]

OLD TESTAMENT

2 CHRONICLES 17:1 - 18:24

171Jehoshaphat his son succeeded him as king and strengthened himself against Israel. 2He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

3The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because in his early years he walked in the ways his father David had followed. He did not consult the Baals 4but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel. 5The LORD established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor. 6His heart was devoted to the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

7In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah. 8With them were certain Levites--Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tob-Adonijah--and the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 9They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD; they went around to all the towns of Judah and taught the people.

10The fear of the LORD fell on all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, so that they did not make war with Jehoshaphat. 11Some Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and silver as tribute, and the Arabs brought him flocks: seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred goats.

12Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah 13and had large supplies in the towns of Judah. He also kept experienced fighting men in Jerusalem. 14Their [11]enrollment by families was as follows:

From Judah, commanders of units of 1,000:

Adnah the commander, with 300,000 fighting men;

15next, Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;

16next, Amasiah son of Zicri, who volunteered himself for the service of the LORD, with 200,000.

17From Benjamin:

Eliada, a valiant soldier, with 200,000 men armed with bows and shields;

18next, Jehozabad, with 180,000 men armed for battle.

19These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

181Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage. 2Some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to attack Ramoth Gilead. 3Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?"

Jehoshaphat replied, "I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war." 4But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "First seek the counsel of the LORD."

5So the king of Israel brought together the prophets--four hundred men--and asked them, "Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?" [12]"Go," they answered, "for God will give it into the king's hand."

6But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?"

7The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah."

"The king should not say that," Jehoshaphat replied.

8So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, "Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once."

9Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance to the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them. 10Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, "This is what the LORD says: `With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' "

11All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. "Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious," they said, "for the LORD will give it into the king's hand."

12The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, as one man the other prophets are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably."

13But Micaiah said, "As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him only what my God says." [13]14When he arrived, the king asked him, "Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?"

"Attack and be victorious," he answered, "for they will be given into your hand."

15The king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"

16Then Micaiah answered, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, `These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' "

17The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?"

18Micaiah continued, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left. 19And the LORD said, `Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?'

"One suggested this, and another that. 20Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, `I will entice him.'

" `By what means?' the LORD asked.

21" `I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said.

" `You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. `Go and do it.'

22"So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you."

23Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. "Which way did the spirit fromA the LORD go when he [14]went from me to speak to you?" he asked.

24Micaiah replied, "You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room." [15]

NEW TESTAMENT

ROMANS 9:25 - 10:13

25As he says in Hosea:

"I will call them `my people' who are not my people;

and I will call her `my loved one' who is not my loved one,"I

26and,

"It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,

`You are not my people,'

they will be called `sons of the living God.' "J

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,

only the remnant will be saved.

28For the Lord will carry out

his sentence on earth with speed and finality."K

29It is just as Isaiah said previously:

"Unless the Lord Almighty

had left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have been like Gomorrah."L

30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. 32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone." 33As it is written: [16]

"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble

and a rock that makes them fall,

and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."M

101Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

5Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them."A 6But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, `Who will ascend into heaven?'B" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7"or `Who will descend into the deep?'C" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,"D that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame."E 12For there is no difference between Jew and [17]Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."F [18]

^{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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