Morning Meditations 2011-5-6

ESV

Psa 7:1  A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
Psa 7:2  lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Psa 7:3  O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
Psa 7:4  if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
Psa 7:5  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Psa 7:6  Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Psa 7:7  Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.
Psa 7:8  The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Psa 7:9  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
Psa 7:10  My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psa 7:11  God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Psa 7:12  If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
Psa 7:13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
Psa 7:14  Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
Psa 7:15  He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
Psa 7:16  His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
Psa 7:17  I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Pro 17:1  Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Pro 17:2  A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
Pro 17:3  The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.
Pro 17:4  An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Pro 17:5  Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Pro 17:6  Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Pro 17:7  Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.
Pro 17:8  A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.
Pro 17:9  Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Pro 17:10  A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Pro 17:11  An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
Pro 17:12  Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
Pro 17:13  If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
Pro 17:14  The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Pro 17:15  He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Pro 17:16  Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Pro 17:17  A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Pro 17:18  One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Pro 17:19  Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.
Pro 17:20  A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
Pro 17:21  He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Pro 17:22  A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Pro 17:23  The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Pro 17:24  The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Pro 17:25  A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Pro 17:26  To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
Pro 17:27  Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Pro 17:28  Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. 

Joh 15:1  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Joh 15:5  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Joh 15:7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Joh 15:8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Joh 15:9  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
Joh 15:10  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Joh 15:12  "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Joh 15:15  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Joh 15:16  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Joh 15:17  These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Joh 15:18  "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Joh 15:20  Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Joh 15:21  But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Joh 15:22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Joh 15:23  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
Joh 15:24  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
Joh 15:25  But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh 15:26  "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Joh 15:27  And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.