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POSTS FOR
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2025

author's translation of psalm 77

 READINGS FROM THE PSALMS

O sing unto the LORD a new song;
   for he hath done marvellous things:
his right hand, and his holy arm,
   hath gotten him the victory (98,1).
​In his most trying hour, Jesus turned to the Psalms to express himself in prayer: “My God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?” (ps. 22.1). If it was good enough for him, it is good enough for us. Generations of Jews and Christians alike have found power in praying the Psalms as Jesus did on the cross. Here, we provide a daily psalm with the suggestion that you consider incorporating it into your daily prayers.

READINGS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come (matthew 22.2-3).
It is impossible to overestimate the power and importance of the N.T. Gospels. Everywhere else when God's thoughts, words, and actions are discussed, it is in the third person: "he thinks," "he says," "he does." But in the N.T. Gospels, all of God's thoughts, words, and actions are in the first person: "I think," "I say," "I do." No where is the revelation of God and His character more accurate and intimate.

READINGS ON A JUST SOCIETY

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, “Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”
   But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts (zachariah 7.9-12, niv).

​READINGS ON ATONEMENT

Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature:
for by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him:
and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
and, having made peace through the blood of his cross,
by him to reconcile all things unto himself;
by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven (colossians 1.12-20).