THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - September 25

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - September 25 - Full Text!

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

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

SEPTEMBER 25

PSALMS: 25, 55, 85, 115, 145

PROVERBS: 25

OLD TESTAMENT: MICAH 1:1 - 4:13

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATION 6:1 - 17

PSALMS: 25

Of David.

¹To ^A you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

²in you I trust, O my God.

Do not let me be put to shame,

nor let my enemies triumph over me.

³No one whose hope is in you

will ever be put to shame,

but they will be put to shame

who are treacherous without excuse.

⁴Show me your ways, O LORD,

teach me your paths;

⁵guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

⁶Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,

for they are from of old.

⁷Remember not the sins of my youth

and my rebellious ways;

according to your love remember me,

for you are good, O LORD.

⁸Good and upright is the LORD;

therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

⁹He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them his way.

¹⁰All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful

for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

¹¹For the sake of your name, O LORD,

forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

¹²Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? ¹

He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.

¹³He will spend his days in prosperity,

and his descendants will inherit the land.

¹⁴The LORD confides in those who fear him;

he makes his covenant known to them.

¹⁵My eyes are ever on the LORD,

for only he will release my feet from the snare.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious to me,

for I am lonely and afflicted.

¹⁷The troubles of my heart have multiplied;

free me from my anguish.

¹⁸Look upon my affliction and my distress

and take away all my sins.

¹⁹See how my enemies have increased

and how fiercely they hate me!

²⁰Guard my life and rescue me;

let me not be put to shame,

for I take refuge in you.

²¹May integrity and uprightness protect me,

because my hope is in you.

²²Redeem Israel, O God,

from all their troubles! ²

PSALMS: 55

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil ^A of David.

¹Listen to my prayer, O God,

do not ignore my plea;

²hear me and answer me.

My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught

³at the voice of the enemy,

at the stares of the wicked;

for they bring down suffering upon me

and revile me in their anger.

⁴My heart is in anguish within me;

the terrors of death assail me.

⁵Fear and trembling have beset me;

horror has overwhelmed me.

⁶I said, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!

I would fly away and be at rest--

⁷I would flee far away

and stay in the desert;

Selah

⁸I would hurry to my place of shelter,

far from the tempest and storm."

⁹Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech,

for I see violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night they prowl about on its walls;

malice and abuse are within it.

¹¹Destructive forces are at work in the city;

threats and lies never leave its streets. ³

¹²If an enemy were insulting me,

I could endure it;

if a foe were raising himself against me,

I could hide from him.

¹³But it is you, a man like myself,

my companion, my close friend,

¹⁴with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship

as we walked with the throng at the house of God.

¹⁵Let death take my enemies by surprise;

let them go down alive to the grave, ^B

for evil finds lodging among them.

¹⁶But I call to God,

and the LORD saves me.

¹⁷Evening, morning and noon

I cry out in distress,

and he hears my voice.

¹⁸He ransoms me unharmed

from the battle waged against me,

even though many oppose me.

¹⁹God, who is enthroned forever,

will hear them and afflict them--

Selah

men who never change their ways

and have no fear of God.

²⁰My companion attacks his friends;

he violates his covenant.

²¹His speech is smooth as butter,

yet war is in his heart;

his words are more soothing than oil, ⁴

yet they are drawn swords.

²²Cast your cares on the LORD

and he will sustain you;

he will never let the righteous fall.

²³But you, O God, will bring down the wicked

into the pit of corruption;

bloodthirsty and deceitful men

will not live out half their days.

But as for me, I trust in you. ⁵

PSALMS: 85

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

¹You showed favor to your land, O LORD;

you restored the fortunes of Jacob.

²You forgave the iniquity of your people

and covered all their sins.

Selah

³You set aside all your wrath

and turned from your fierce anger.

⁴Restore us again, O God our Savior,

and put away your displeasure toward us.

⁵Will you be angry with us forever?

Will you prolong your anger through all generations?

⁶Will you not revive us again,

that your people may rejoice in you?

⁷Show us your unfailing love, O LORD,

and grant us your salvation.

⁸I will listen to what God the LORD will say;

he promises peace to his people, his saints--

but let them not return to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,

that his glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Love and faithfulness meet together;

righteousness and peace kiss each other.

¹¹Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,

and righteousness looks down from heaven.

¹²The LORD will indeed give what is good,

and our land will yield its harvest.

¹³Righteousness goes before him ⁶

and prepares the way for his steps. ⁷

PSALMS: 115

¹Not to us, O LORD, not to us

but to your name be the glory,

because of your love and faithfulness.

²Why do the nations say,

"Where is their God?"

³Our God is in heaven;

he does whatever pleases him.

⁴But their idols are silver and gold,

made by the hands of men.

⁵They have mouths, but cannot speak,

eyes, but they cannot see;

⁶they have ears, but cannot hear,

noses, but they cannot smell;

⁷they have hands, but cannot feel,

feet, but they cannot walk;

nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

⁸Those who make them will be like them,

and so will all who trust in them.

⁹O house of Israel, trust in the LORD--

he is their help and shield.

¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD--

he is their help and shield.

¹¹You who fear him, trust in the LORD--

he is their help and shield.

¹²The LORD remembers us and will bless us:

He will bless the house of Israel,

he will bless the house of Aaron,

¹³he will bless those who fear the LORD--

small and great alike. ⁸

¹⁴May the LORD make you increase,

both you and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by the LORD,

the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹⁶The highest heavens belong to the LORD,

but the earth he has given to man.

¹⁷It is not the dead who praise the LORD,

those who go down to silence;

¹⁸it is we who extol the LORD,

both now and forevermore.

Praise the LORD. ^A ⁹

PSALMS: 145

A psalm of praise. Of David.

¹I ^A will exalt you, my God the King;

I will praise your name for ever and ever.

²Every day I will praise you

and extol your name for ever and ever.

³Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;

his greatness no one can fathom.

⁴One generation will commend your works to another;

they will tell of your mighty acts.

⁵They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty,

and I will meditate on your wonderful works. ^B

⁶They will tell of the power of your awesome works,

and I will proclaim your great deeds.

⁷They will celebrate your abundant goodness

and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

⁸The LORD is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger and rich in love.

⁹The LORD is good to all;

he has compassion on all he has made.

¹⁰All you have made will praise you, O LORD;

your saints will extol you.

¹¹They will tell of the glory of your kingdom

and speak of your might,

¹²so that all men may know of your mighty acts

and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.

¹³Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and your dominion endures through all generations. ¹⁰

The LORD is faithful to all his promises

and loving toward all he has made. ^C

¹⁴The LORD upholds all those who fall

and lifts up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵The eyes of all look to you,

and you give them their food at the proper time.

¹⁶You open your hand

and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

¹⁷The LORD is righteous in all his ways

and loving toward all he has made.

¹⁸The LORD is near to all who call on him,

to all who call on him in truth.

¹⁹He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;

he hears their cry and saves them.

²⁰The LORD watches over all who love him,

but all the wicked he will destroy.

²¹My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD.

Let every creature praise his holy name

for ever and ever. ¹¹

PROVERBS: 25

25 ¹These are more proverbs of Solomon, copied by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:

²It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;

to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

³As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,

so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

⁴Remove the dross from the silver,

and out comes material for ^A the silversmith;

⁵remove the wicked from the king's presence,

and his throne will be established through righteousness.

⁶Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence,

and do not claim a place among great men;

⁷it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here,"

than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman.

What you have seen with your eyes

⁸ do not bring ^B hastily to court,

for what will you do in the end

if your neighbor puts you to shame?

⁹If you argue your case with a neighbor,

do not betray another man's confidence,

¹⁰or he who hears it may shame you

and you will never lose your bad reputation.

¹¹A word aptly spoken

is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹²Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold

is a wise man's rebuke to a listening ear. ¹²

¹³Like the coolness of snow at harvest time

is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him;

he refreshes the spirit of his masters.

¹⁴Like clouds and wind without rain

is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give.

¹⁵Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,

and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

¹⁶If you find honey, eat just enough--

too much of it, and you will vomit.

¹⁷Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house--

too much of you, and he will hate you.

¹⁸Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow

is the man who gives false testimony against his neighbor.

¹⁹Like a bad tooth or a lame foot

is reliance on the unfaithful in times of trouble.

²⁰Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,

or like vinegar poured on soda,

is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

²¹If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;

if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

²²In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,

and the LORD will reward you.

²³As a north wind brings rain,

so a sly tongue brings angry looks. ¹³

²⁴Better to live on a corner of the roof

than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

²⁵Like cold water to a weary soul

is good news from a distant land.

²⁶Like a muddied spring or a polluted well

is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

²⁷It is not good to eat too much honey,

nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

²⁸Like a city whose walls are broken down

is a man who lacks self-control. ¹⁴

OLD TESTAMENT: MICAH 1:1 - 4:13

1 ¹The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah--the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

²Hear, O peoples, all of you,

listen, O earth and all who are in it,

that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you,

the Lord from his holy temple.

³Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place;

he comes down and treads the high places of the earth.

⁴The mountains melt beneath him

and the valleys split apart,

like wax before the fire,

like water rushing down a slope.

⁵All this is because of Jacob's transgression,

because of the sins of the house of Israel.

What is Jacob's transgression?

Is it not Samaria?

What is Judah's high place?

Is it not Jerusalem?

⁶"Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,

a place for planting vineyards.

I will pour her stones into the valley

and lay bare her foundations.

⁷All her idols will be broken to pieces;

all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; ¹⁵

I will destroy all her images.

Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,

as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used."

⁸Because of this I will weep and wail;

I will go about barefoot and naked.

I will howl like a jackal

and moan like an owl.

⁹For her wound is incurable;

it has come to Judah.

It ^A has reached the very gate of my people,

even to Jerusalem itself.

¹⁰Tell it not in Gath ^B;

weep not at all. ^C

In Beth Ophrah ^D

roll in the dust.

¹¹Pass on in nakedness and shame,

you who live in Shaphir. ^E

Those who live in Zaanan ^F

will not come out.

Beth Ezel is in mourning;

its protection is taken from you.

¹²Those who live in Maroth ^G writhe in pain,

waiting for relief, ¹⁶

because disaster has come from the LORD,

even to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³You who live in Lachish, ^H

harness the team to the chariot.

You were the beginning of sin

to the Daughter of Zion,

for the transgressions of Israel

were found in you.

¹⁴Therefore you will give parting gifts

to Moresheth Gath.

The town of Aczib^I will prove deceptive

to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵I will bring a conqueror against you

who live in Mareshah. ^J

He who is the glory of Israel

will come to Adullam.

¹⁶Shave your heads in mourning

for the children in whom you delight;

make yourselves as bald as the vulture,

for they will go from you into exile.

2 ¹ Woe to those who plan iniquity, ¹⁷

At morning's light they carry it out

because it is in their power to do it.

²They covet fields and seize them,

and houses, and take them.

They defraud a man of his home,

a fellowman of his inheritance.

³Therefore, the LORD says:

"I am planning disaster against this people,

from which you cannot save yourselves.

You will no longer walk proudly,

for it will be a time of calamity.

⁴In that day men will ridicule you;

they will taunt you with this mournful song:

`We are utterly ruined;

my people's possession is divided up.

He takes it from me!

He assigns our fields to traitors.'"

⁵Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD

to divide the land by lot. ¹⁸

⁶"Do not prophesy," their prophets say.

"Do not prophesy about these things;

disgrace will not overtake us."

⁷Should it be said, O house of Jacob:

"Is the Spirit of the LORD angry?

Does he do such things?"

"Do not my words do good

to him whose ways are upright?

⁸Lately my people have risen up

like an enemy.

You strip off the rich robe

from those who pass by without a care,

like men returning from battle.

⁹You drive the women of my people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away my blessing

from their children forever.

¹⁰Get up, go away!

For this is not your resting place,

because it is defiled,

it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

¹¹If a liar and deceiver comes and says,

`I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,'

he would be just the prophet for this people! ¹⁹

¹²"I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;

I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.

I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,

like a flock in its pasture;

the place will throng with people.

¹³One who breaks open the way will go up before them;

they will break through the gate and go out.

Their king will pass through before them,

the LORD at their head."

3 ¹Then I said,

"Listen, you leaders of Jacob,

you rulers of the house of Israel.

Should you not know justice,

² you who hate good and love evil;

who tear the skin from my people

and the flesh from their bones;

³who eat my people's flesh,

strip off their skin

and break their bones in pieces;

who chop them up like meat for the pan,

like flesh for the pot?" ²⁰

⁴Then they will cry out to the LORD,

but he will not answer them.

At that time he will hide his face from them

because of the evil they have done.

⁵This is what the LORD says:

"As for the prophets

who lead my people astray,

if one feeds them,

they proclaim `peace';

if he does not,

they prepare to wage war against him.

⁶Therefore night will come over you, without visions,

and darkness, without divination.

The sun will set for the prophets,

and the day will go dark for them.

⁷The seers will be ashamed

and the diviners disgraced.

They will all cover their faces

because there is no answer from God."

⁸But as for me, I am filled with power,

with the Spirit of the LORD,

and with justice and might,

to declare to Jacob his transgression,

to Israel his sin. ²¹

⁹Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob,

you rulers of the house of Israel,

who despise justice

and distort all that is right;

¹⁰who build Zion with bloodshed,

and Jerusalem with wickedness.

¹¹Her leaders judge for a bribe,

her priests teach for a price,

and her prophets tell fortunes for money.

Yet they lean upon the LORD and say,

"Is not the LORD among us?

No disaster will come upon us."

¹²Therefore because of you,

Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,

the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

4 ¹In the last days

the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established

as chief among the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills,

and peoples will stream to it. ²²

²Many nations will come and say,

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us his ways,

so that we may walk in his paths."

The law will go out from Zion,

the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

³He will judge between many peoples

and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.

They will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not take up sword against nation,

nor will they train for war anymore.

⁴Every man will sit under his own vine

and under his own fig tree,

and no one will make them afraid,

for the LORD Almighty has spoken.

⁵All the nations may walk

in the name of their gods;

we will walk in the name of the LORD

our God for ever and ever.

⁶"In that day," declares the LORD, ²³

"I will gather the lame;

I will assemble the exiles

and those I have brought to grief.

⁷I will make the lame a remnant,

those driven away a strong nation.

The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion

from that day and forever.

⁸As for you, O watchtower of the flock,

O stronghold ^A of the Daughter of Zion,

the former dominion will be restored to you;

kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."

⁹Why do you now cry aloud--

have you no king?

Has your counselor perished,

that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?

¹⁰Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion,

like a woman in labor,

for now you must leave the city

to camp in the open field.

You will go to Babylon;

there you will be rescued.

There the LORD will redeem you ²⁴

out of the hand of your enemies.

¹¹But now many nations

are gathered against you.

They say, "Let her be defiled,

let our eyes gloat over Zion!"

¹²But they do not know

the thoughts of the LORD;

they do not understand his plan,

he who gathers them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

¹³"Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion,

for I will give you horns of iron;

I will give you hoofs of bronze

and you will break to pieces many nations."

You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD,

their wealth to the Lord of all the earth. ²⁵

NEW TESTAMENT: REVELATION 6:1 - 17

6 ¹I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" ²I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

³When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" ⁴Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

⁵When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart ^A of wheat for a day's wages, ^B and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, ^C and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

⁷When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" ⁸I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" ¹¹Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

¹²I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

¹⁵Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

¹⁶They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" ²⁶

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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