THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - July 6

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - July 6 - Full Text!

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

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

JULY 6

PSALMS: 6, 36, 66, 96, 126

PROVERBS: 6

OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 45:1 - 48:11

NEW TESTAMENT: EPHESIANS 4:1 - 16

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 grave ^B?

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

find ^B 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 his ^A 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 to ^A 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

6 ¹ 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: ISAIAH 45:1 - 48:11

¹¹"This is what the LORD says--

the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:

Concerning things to come,

do you question me about my children,

or give me orders about the work of my hands?

¹² It is I who made the earth

and created mankind upon it.

My own hands stretched out the heavens;

I marshaled their starry hosts.

¹³ I will raise up Cyrus ^B in my righteousness:

I will make all his ways straight.

He will rebuild my city

and set my exiles free,

but not for a price or reward,

says the LORD Almighty."

¹⁴This is what the LORD says:

"The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, ^C

and those tall Sabeans--

they will come over to you

and will be yours;

they will trudge behind you,

coming over to you in chains.

They will bow down before you

and plead with you, saying,

`Surely God is with you, and there is no other;

there is no other god.'" ¹¹

¹⁵Truly you are a God who hides himself,

O God and Savior of Israel.

¹⁶All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;

they will go off into disgrace together.

¹⁷But Israel will be saved by the LORD

with an everlasting salvation;

you will never be put to shame or disgraced,

to ages everlasting.

¹⁸For this is what the LORD says--

he who created the heavens,

he is God;

he who fashioned and made the earth,

he founded it;

he did not create it to be empty,

but formed it to be inhabited--

he says:

"I am the LORD,

and there is no other.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret,

from somewhere in a land of darkness;

I have not said to Jacob's descendants,

`Seek me in vain.'

I, the LORD, speak the truth;

I declare what is right.

²⁰ "Gather together and come; ¹²

assemble, you fugitives from the nations.

Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,

who pray to gods that cannot save.

²¹Declare what is to be, present it--

let them take counsel together.

Who foretold this long ago,

who declared it from the distant past?

Was it not I, the LORD?

And there is no God apart from me,

a righteous God and a Savior;

there is none but me.

²²"Turn to me and be saved,

all you ends of the earth;

for I am God, and there is no other.

²³ By myself I have sworn,

my mouth has uttered in all integrity

a word that will not be revoked:

Before me every knee will bow;

by me every tongue will swear.

²⁴ They will say of me, `In the LORD alone

are righteousness and strength.' "

All who have raged against him

will come to him and be put to shame. ¹³

²⁵But in the LORD all the descendants of Israel

will be found righteous and will exult.

46 ¹ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low;

their idols are borne by beasts of burden. ^A

The images that are carried about are burdensome,

a burden for the weary.

²They stoop and bow down together;

unable to rescue the burden,

they themselves go off into captivity.

³"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

all you who remain of the house of Israel,

you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,

an have carried since your birth.

⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs

I am he, I am he who will sustain you.

I have made you and I will carry you;

I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

⁵ "To whom will you compare me or count me equal?

To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?

⁶ Some pour out gold from their bags ¹⁴

and weigh out silver on the scales;

they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,

and they bow down and worship it.

⁷ They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;

they set it up in its place, and there it stands.

From that spot it cannot move.

Though one cries out to it, it does not answer;

it cannot save him from his troubles.

⁸ "Remember this, fix it in mind,

take it to heart, you rebels.

⁹ Remember the former things, those of long ago;

I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is none like me.

¹⁰ I make known the end from the beginning,

from ancient times, what is still to come.

I say: My purpose will stand,

and I will do all that I please.

¹¹ From the east I summon a bird of prey;

from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.

What I have said, that will I bring about;

what I have planned, that will I do.

¹² Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,

you who are far from righteousness.

¹³ I am bringing my righteousness near,

it is not far away; ¹⁵

and my salvation will not be delayed.

I will grant salvation to Zion,

my splendor to Israel.

47 ¹ "Go down, sit in the dust,

Virgin Daughter of Babylon;

sit on the ground without a throne,

Daughter of the Babylonians. ^A

No more will you be called

tender or delicate.

² Take millstones and grind flour;

take off your veil.

Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,

and wade through the streams.

³ Your nakedness will be exposed

and your shame uncovered.

I will take vengeance;

I will spare no one."

⁴Our Redeemer--the LORD Almighty is his name--

is the Holy One of Israel.

⁵"Sit in silence, go into darkness,

Daughter of the Babylonians; ¹⁶

no more will you be called

queen of kingdoms.

⁶ I was angry with my people

and desecrated my inheritance;

I gave them into your hand,

and you showed them no mercy.

Even on the aged

you laid a very heavy yoke.

⁷ You said, `I will continue forever--

the eternal queen!'

But you did not consider these things

or reflect on what might happen.

⁸ "Now then, listen, you wanton creature,

lounging in your security

and saying to yourself,

`I am, and there is none besides me.

I will never be a widow

or suffer the loss of children.'

⁹ Both of these will overtake you

in a moment, on a single day:

loss of children and widowhood.

They will come upon you in full measure,

in spite of your many sorceries ¹⁷

and all your potent spells.

¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness

and have said, `No one sees me.'

Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you

when you say to yourself,

`I am, and there is none besides me.'

¹¹ Disaster will come upon you,

and you will not know how to conjure it away.

A calamity will fall upon you

that you cannot ward off with a ransom;

a catastrophe you cannot foresee

will suddenly come upon you.

¹² "Keep on, then, with your magic spells

and with your many sorceries,

which you have labored at since childhood.

Perhaps you will succeed,

perhaps you will cause terror.

¹³ All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!

Let your astrologers come forward,

those stargazers who make predictions month by month,

let them save you from what is coming upon you.

¹⁴ Surely they are like stubble;

the fire will burn them up.

They cannot even save themselves ¹⁸

from the power of the flame.

Here are no coals to warm anyone;

here is no fire to sit by.

¹⁵ That is all they can do for you--

these you have labored with

and trafficked with since childhood.

Each of them goes on in his error;

there is not one that can save you.

48 ¹ "Listen to this, O house of Jacob,

you who are called by the name of Israel

and come from the line of Judah,

you who take oaths in the name of the LORD

and invoke the God of Israel--

but not in truth or righteousness--

² you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city

and rely on the God of Israel--

the LORD Almighty is his name:

³ I foretold the former things long ago,

my mouth announced them and I made them known;

then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

⁴ For I knew how stubborn you were;

the sinews of your neck were iron,

your forehead was bronze. ¹⁹

⁵ Therefore I told you these things long ago;

before they happened I announced them to you

so that you could not say,

`My idols did them;

my wooden image and metal god ordained them.'

⁶ You have heard these things; look at them all.

Will you not admit them?

"From now on I will tell you of new things,

of hidden things unknown to you.

⁷ They are created now, and not long ago;

you have not heard of them before today.

So you cannot say,

`Yes, I knew of them.'

⁸You have neither heard nor understood;

from of old your ear has not been open.

Well do I know how treacherous you are;

you were called a rebel from birth.

⁹For my own name's sake I delay my wrath;

for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,

so as not to cut you off.

¹⁰See, I have refined you, though not as silver;

I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this.

How can I let myself be defamed?

I will not yield my glory to another. ²⁰

NEW TESTAMENT: EPHESIANS 4:1 - 16

4 ¹As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. ²Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

³Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

⁴There is one body and one Spirit-- just as you were called to one hope when you were called—⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

⁷But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. ⁸This is why it ^A says:

"When he ascended on high,

he led captives in his train

and gave gifts to men." ^B

⁹(What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions ^C? ¹⁰He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) ¹¹It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹²to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up

¹³until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

¹⁴Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. ¹⁵Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. ¹⁶From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. ²¹

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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