Episode 424
424: What to do when God seems far away and silent (Psalm 10) || Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer · Carey Green
June 11, 20196m 19s
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Psalm 10</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-10-1">Why, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, do you stand far away?</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-1">Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14044" class="text Ps-10-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-2">let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14045" class="text Ps-10-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-3">and the one greedy for gain curses<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-14045a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-14045a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2010&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14045a">a</a>]</sup> and renounces the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14046" class="text Ps-10-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>In the pride of his face<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-14046b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-14046b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2010&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14046b">b</a>]</sup> the wicked does not seek him;<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-14046c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-14046c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a title="See footnote c" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2010&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14046c">c</a>]</sup></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-4">all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14047" class="text Ps-10-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>His ways prosper at all times;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-5">your judgments are on high, out of his sight;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-5">as for all his foes, he puffs at them.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14048" class="text Ps-10-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-6">throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14049" class="text Ps-10-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-7">under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14050" class="text Ps-10-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>He sits in ambush in the villages;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-8">in hiding places he murders the innocent.</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-10-8">His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span id="en-ESV-14051" class="text Ps-10-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-10-9">he lurks that he may seize the poor;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-9">he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14052" class="text Ps-10-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>The helpless are crushed, sink down,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-10">and fall by his might.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14053" class="text Ps-10-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-11">he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14054" class="text Ps-10-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>Arise, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>; O God, lift up your hand;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-12">forget not the afflicted.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14055" class="text Ps-10-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Why does the wicked renounce God</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-13">and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14056" class="text Ps-10-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-14">that you may take it into your hands;</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-10-14">to you the helpless commits himself;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-14">you have been the helper of the fatherless.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14057" class="text Ps-10-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-15">call his wickedness to account till you find none.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14058" class="text Ps-10-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>The <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> is king forever and ever;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-16">the nations perish from his land.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14059" class="text Ps-10-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you hear the desire of the afflicted;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-17">you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14060" class="text Ps-10-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-10-18">so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.</span></span></p>
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