THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - September 22

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - September 22 - Full Text!

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

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

SEPTEMBER 22

PSALMS: 22, 52, 82, 112, 142

PROVERBS: 22

OLD TESTAMENT: AMOS 7:1 - 9:14

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATION 3:7 - 22

PSALMS: 22

For the director of music. To the tune of "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David.

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me,

so far from the words of my groaning?

²O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,

by night, and am not silent.

³Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;

you are the praise of Israel. ^A

⁴In you our fathers put their trust;

they trusted and you delivered them.

⁵They cried to you and were saved;

in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

⁶But I am a worm and not a man,

scorned by men and despised by the people.

⁷All who see me mock me;

they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

⁸"He trusts in the LORD;

let the LORD rescue him.

Let him deliver him,

since he delights in him."

⁹Yet you brought me out of the womb;

you made me trust in you

even at my mother's breast.

¹⁰From birth I was cast upon you;

from my mother's womb you have been my God. ^{^[1]}

¹¹Do not be far from me,

for trouble is near

and there is no one to help.

¹²Many bulls surround me;

strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

¹³Roaring lions tearing their prey

open their mouths wide against me.

¹⁴I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart has turned to wax;

it has melted away within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd,

and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;

you lay me ^B in the dust of death.

¹⁶Dogs have surrounded me;

a band of evil men has encircled me,

they have pierced ^C my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I can count all my bones;

people stare and gloat over me.

¹⁸They divide my garments among them

and cast lots for my clothing.

¹⁹But you, O LORD, be not far off;

O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

²⁰Deliver my life from the sword,

my precious life from the power of the dogs.

²¹Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;

save ^D me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²²I will declare your name to my brothers;

in the congregation I will praise you.

²³You who fear the LORD, praise him!

All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! ^{^[2]}

Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

²⁴For he has not despised or disdained

the suffering of the afflicted one;

he has not hidden his face from him

but has listened to his cry for help.

²⁵From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;

before those who fear you ^E will I fulfill my vows.

²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied;

they who seek the LORD will praise him--

may your hearts live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth

will remember and turn to the LORD,

and all the families of the nations

will bow down before him,

²⁸for dominion belongs to the LORD

and he rules over the nations.

²⁹All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;

all who go down to the dust will kneel before him--

those who cannot keep themselves alive.

³⁰Posterity will serve him;

future generations will be told about the Lord.

³¹They will proclaim his righteousness

to a people yet unborn--

for he has done it. ^{^[3]}

PSALMS: 52

For the director of music. A maskil ^A of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech."

¹Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?

Why do you boast all day long,

you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

²Your tongue plots destruction;

it is like a sharpened razor,

you who practice deceit.

³You love evil rather than good,

falsehood rather than speaking the truth.

Selah

⁴You love every harmful word,

O you deceitful tongue!

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:

He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;

he will uproot you from the land of the living.

Selah

⁶The righteous will see and fear;

they will laugh at him, saying,

⁷"Here now is the man

who did not make God his stronghold

but trusted in his great wealth

and grew strong by destroying others!"

⁸But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in God's unfailing love

for ever and ever.

⁹I will praise you forever for what you have done; ^{^[4]}

in your name I will hope, for your name is good.

I will praise you in the presence of your saints. ^{^[5]}

PSALMS: 82

A psalm of Asaph.

¹God presides in the great assembly;

he gives judgment among the "gods":

²"How long will you ^A defend the unjust

and show partiality to the wicked?

Selah

³Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;

maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

⁴Rescue the weak and needy;

deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

⁵"They know nothing, they understand nothing.

They walk about in darkness;

all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶"I said, `You are "gods";

you are all sons of the Most High.'

⁷But you will die like mere men;

you will fall like every other ruler."

⁸Rise up, O God, judge the earth,

for all the nations are your inheritance. ^{^[6]}

PSALMS: 112

¹Praise ^A the LORD. ^B

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,

who finds great delight in his commands.

²His children will be mighty in the land;

the generation of the upright will be blessed.

³Wealth and riches are in his house,

and his righteousness endures forever.

⁴Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,

for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man. ^C

⁵Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely,

who conducts his affairs with justice.

⁶Surely he will never be shaken;

a righteous man will be remembered forever.

⁷He will have no fear of bad news;

his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

⁸His heart is secure, he will have no fear;

in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.

⁹He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor,

his righteousness endures forever;

his horn ^D will be lifted high in honor.

¹⁰The wicked man will see and be vexed,

he will gnash his teeth and waste away;

the longings of the wicked will come to nothing. ^{^[7]}

PSALMS: 142

A maskil ^A of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.

¹I cry aloud to the LORD;

I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.

²I pour out my complaint before him;

before him I tell my trouble.

³When my spirit grows faint within me,

it is you who know my way.

In the path where I walk

men have hidden a snare for me.

⁴Look to my right and see;

no one is concerned for me.

I have no refuge;

no one cares for my life.

⁵I cry to you, O LORD;

I say, "You are my refuge,

my portion in the land of the living."

⁶Listen to my cry,

for I am in desperate need;

rescue me from those who pursue me,

for they are too strong for me.

⁷Set me free from my prison,

that I may praise your name.

Then the righteous will gather about me

because of your goodness to me. ^{^[8]}

PROVERBS: 22

22 ¹ A good name is more desirable than great riches;

to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

²Rich and poor have this in common:

The LORD is the Maker of them all.

³A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge,

but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

⁴Humility and the fear of the LORD

bring wealth and honor and life.

⁵In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares,

but he who guards his soul stays far from them.

⁶Train ^A a child in the way he should go,

and when he is old he will not turn from it.

⁷The rich rule over the poor,

and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,

and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

⁹A generous man will himself be blessed,

for he shares his food with the poor.

¹⁰Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;

quarrels and insults are ended.

¹¹He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious

will have the king for his friend. ^{^[9]}

¹²The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge,

but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

¹³The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!"

or, "I will be murdered in the streets!"

¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;

he who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

¹⁶He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth

and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty.

¹⁷Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise;

apply your heart to what I teach,

¹⁸for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart

and have all of them ready on your lips.

¹⁹So that your trust may be in the LORD,

I teach you today, even you.

²⁰Have I not written thirty ^B sayings for you,

sayings of counsel and knowledge,

²¹teaching you true and reliable words,

so that you can give sound answers

to him who sent you?

²²Do not exploit the poor because they are poor

and do not crush the needy in court,

²³for the LORD will take up their case

and will plunder those who plunder them. ^{^[10]}

²⁴Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,

do not associate with one easily angered,

²⁵or you may learn his ways

and get yourself ensnared.

²⁶Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge

or puts up security for debts;

²⁷if you lack the means to pay,

your very bed will be snatched from under you.

²⁸Do not move an ancient boundary stone

set up by your forefathers.

²⁹Do you see a man skilled in his work?

He will serve before kings;

he will not serve before obscure men. ^{^[11]}

OLD TESTAMENT: AMOS 7:1 - 9:14

7 ¹This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king's share had been harvested and just as the second crop was coming up.

²When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"

³So the LORD relented.

"This will not happen," the LORD said.

⁴This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. ⁵Then I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"

⁶So the LORD relented.

"This will not happen either," the Sovereign LORD said.

⁷This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?"

"A plumb line," I replied.

Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

⁹"The high places of Isaac will be destroyed

and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;

with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam."

¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: "Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. ¹¹For this is what Amos is saying:

"`Jeroboam will die by the sword,

and Israel will surely go into exile,

away from their native land.'" ^{^[12]}

¹²Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. ¹³Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom."

¹⁴Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor a prophet's son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. ¹⁵But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, `Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' ¹⁶Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say,

"`Do not prophesy against Israel,

and stop preaching against the house of Isaac.'

¹⁷"Therefore this is what the LORD says:

"`Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,

and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.

Your land will be measured and divided up,

and you yourself will die in a pagan ^A country.

And Israel will certainly go into exile,

away from their native land.'"

8 ¹This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. ²"What do you see, Amos?" he asked.

"A basket of ripe fruit," I answered.

Then the LORD said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

³"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. ^A Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!"

this, you who trample the needy

and do away with the poor of the land, ^{^[13]}

⁵saying,

"When will the New Moon be over

that we may sell grain,

and the Sabbath be ended

that we may market wheat?"--

skimping the measure,

boosting the price

and cheating with dishonest scales,

⁶buying the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

⁷The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget anything they have done.

⁸"Will not the land tremble for this,

and all who live in it mourn?

The whole land will rise like the Nile;

it will be stirred up and then sink

like the river of Egypt.

⁹"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD,

"I will make the sun go down at noon

and darken the earth in broad daylight.

¹⁰I will turn your religious feasts into mourning ^{^[14]}

and all your singing into weeping.

I will make all of you wear sackcloth

and shave your heads.

I will make that time like mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD,

"when I will send a famine through the land--

not a famine of food or a thirst for water,

but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

¹²Men will stagger from sea to sea

and wander from north to east,

searching for the word of the LORD,

but they will not find it.

¹³"In that day

"the lovely young women and strong young men

will faint because of thirst.

¹⁴They who swear by the shame ^B of Samaria,

or say, `As surely as your god lives, O Dan,'

or, `As surely as the god ^C of Beersheba lives'--

they will fall,

never to rise again." ^{^[15]}

9 ¹I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:

"Strike the tops of the pillars

so that the thresholds shake.

Bring them down on the heads of all the people;

those who are left I will kill with the sword.

Not one will get away,

none will escape.

²Though they dig down to the depths of the grave, ^A

from there my hand will take them.

Though they climb up to the heavens,

from there I will bring them down.

³Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,

there I will hunt them down and seize them.

Though they hide from me at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent to bite them.

⁴Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,

there I will command the sword to slay them.

I will fix my eyes upon them

for evil and not for good."

⁵The Lord, the LORD Almighty,

he who touches the earth and it melts,

and all who live in it mourn--

the whole land rises like the Nile, ^{^[16]}

then sinks like the river of Egypt--

⁶he who builds his lofty palace ^B in the heavens

and sets its foundation ^C on the earth,

who calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out over the face of the land--

the LORD is his name.

⁷"Are not you Israelites

the same to me as the Cushites ^D?"

declares the LORD.

"Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,

the Philistines from Caphtor^E

and the Arameans from Kir?

⁸"Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD

are on the sinful kingdom.

I will destroy it

from the face of the earth--

yet I will not totally destroy

the house of Jacob,"

declares the LORD.

⁹"For I will give the command,

and I will shake the house of Israel

among all the nations

as grain is shaken in a sieve,

and not a pebble will reach the ground. ^{^[17]}

¹⁰All the sinners among my people

will die by the sword,

all those who say,

`Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'

¹¹"In that day I will restore

David's fallen tent.

I will repair its broken places,

restore its ruins,

and build it as it used to be,

¹²so that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations that bear my name, ^F"

declares the LORD, who will do these things.

¹³"The days are coming," declares the LORD,

"when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman

and the planter by the one treading grapes.

New wine will drip from the mountains

and flow from all the hills.

¹⁴I will bring back my exiled ^G people Israel;

they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.

They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;

they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

¹⁵I will plant Israel in their own land,

never again to be uprooted

from the land I have given them," ^{^[18]}

says the LORD your God. ^{^[19]}

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATION 3:7 - 22

⁷"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars--I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. ¹⁰Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

¹¹I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

¹²Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. ¹³He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹⁴"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. ¹⁵I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷You say, `I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

¹⁹Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. ²⁰Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

²¹To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ^{^[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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