Bible League: Living His Word LORD, you have heard what the poor want. Listen to their prayers, and do what they ask.— Psalm 10:17 ERV Lord, you have heard what the poor want, for they cry out to you day and night. They are in trouble. They are in trouble in many different ways. It's not just the money. It's not just that they don't have enough. People are taking advantage of them. There are wicked people among them that have devised evil plans to use them and hurt them. The wicked are "like lions hiding in the bushes to catch weak and helpless animals. They lay their traps for the poor who are caught in their nets. Again and again they hurt people who are already weak and suffering," (Psalm 10:9-10). The poor don't have the resources necessary to fight them off. They cry out to you because you are all they have. Lord, listen to their prayers. Don't stay far away. Don't hide from them in their times of trouble. The wicked don't take you seriously. They don't turn to you for help or cry out to you. They're too proud to ask you for help. You don't fit into their plans at all. Instead, they say to themselves, "God has forgotten about us. He is not watching. He will never see what we are doing," (Psalm 10:11). It's the poor that look to you. It's the poor that hold you in high regard and count on you. They're not too proud to admit their dependency on you. Turn to them, Lord. Listen to what they have to say. And Lord, please do what they ask. They're not asking for things that are against your will. They need help with money and finances. They need mercy and justice. Don't let them be driven from their homes and thrown into the streets. Give them what they need. Stop the wicked from succeeding with their evil schemes. Don't let the poor fall into their traps. If anyone is going to fall into their traps, then let it be the wicked themselves (Proverbs 28:10). Arise Lord! "If you would tear open the skies and come down to earth, then everything would change," (Isaiah 64:1). If you listen and act, then the poor will be helped and there will be justice and righteousness on the earth. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingPsalm 119:49-104 Psalm 119 -- Blessed are those whose ways are blameless NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading 1 Corinthians 4 1 Corinthians 4 -- Apostles Are Servants of Christ NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion Jesus replied, “My light will shine for you just a little longer. Walk in the light while you can, so the darkness will not overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are going. Put your trust in the light while there is still time; then you will become children of the light.”Insight Jesus said he would be with them in person for only a short time, and they should take advantage of his presence while they had it. Like a light shining in a dark place, he would point out the way they should walk. If they walked in his light, they would become “children of the light,” revealing the truth and pointing people to God. Challenge As Christians, we are to be Christ's light bearers, letting his light shine through us. How brightly is your light shining? Can others see Christ in your actions? Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Ephesians 3:8 The unsearchable riches of Christ.My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a greater Saviour than you think him to be when your thoughts are at the greatest. My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply your wants than you are to confess them. Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus. When you put the crown on his head, you will only crown him with silver when he deserves gold. My Master has riches of happiness to bestow upon you now. He can make you to lie down in green pastures, and lead you beside still waters. There is no music like the music of his pipe, when he is the Shepherd and you are the sheep, and you lie down at his feet. There is no love like his, neither earth nor heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him--oh! this is life, this is joy, this is marrow and fatness, wine on the lees well refined. My Master does not treat his servants churlishly; he gives to them as a king giveth to a king; he gives them two heavens--a heaven below in serving him here, and a heaven above in delighting in him forever. His unsearchable riches will be best known in eternity. He will give you on the way to heaven all you need; your place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks, your bread shall be given you, and your waters shall be sure; but it is there, there, where you shall hear the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast, and shall have a face-to-face view of the glorious and beloved One. The unsearchable riches of Christ! This is the tune for the minstrels of earth, and the song for the harpers of heaven. Lord, teach us more and more of Jesus, and we will tell out the good news to others. Daily Light on the Daily Path 1 Kings 4:29 Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.Matthew 12:42 "The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. Isaiah 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Romans 5:7,8 For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. • But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Philippians 2:6-8 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, • but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. • Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Ephesians 3:19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. 1 Corinthians 1:24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Colossians 2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Ephesians 3:8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 1 Corinthians 1:31 so that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD." New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. |
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