Episode 450
450: God's course corrections to our wrong thinking (Psalm 31) || Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer · Carey Green
July 7, 20196m 20s
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Psalm 31</span></p>
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<p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-31-1 psuedo-selection">In you, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, do I take refuge;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-1 psuedo-selection">let me never be put to shame;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-1 psuedo-selection">in your righteousness deliver me!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14334" class="text Ps-31-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Incline your ear to me;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-2">rescue me speedily!</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-2">Be a rock of refuge for me,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-2">a strong fortress to save me!</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14335" class="text Ps-31-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For you are my rock and my fortress;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-3">and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14336" class="text Ps-31-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-4">for you are my refuge.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14337" class="text Ps-31-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Into your hand I commit my spirit;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-5">you have redeemed me, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, faithful God.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14338" class="text Ps-31-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-6">but I trust in the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14339" class="text Ps-31-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-7">because you have seen my affliction;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-7">you have known the distress of my soul,</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14340" class="text Ps-31-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-8">you have set my feet in a broad place.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14341" class="text Ps-31-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Be gracious to me, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for I am in distress;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-9">my eye is wasted from grief;</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-9">my soul and my body also.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14342" class="text Ps-31-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>For my life is spent with sorrow,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-10">and my years with sighing;</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-10">my strength fails because of my iniquity,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-10">and my bones waste away.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14343" class="text Ps-31-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-11">especially to my neighbors,</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-11">and an object of dread to my acquaintances;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-11">those who see me in the street flee from me.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14344" class="text Ps-31-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I have been forgotten like one who is dead;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-12">I have become like a broken vessel.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14345" class="text Ps-31-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>For I hear the whispering of many—</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-13">terror on every side!—</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-13">as they scheme together against me,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-13">as they plot to take my life.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14346" class="text Ps-31-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>But I trust in you, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-14">I say, “You are my God.”</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14347" class="text Ps-31-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>My times are in your hand;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-15">rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14348" class="text Ps-31-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>Make your face shine on your servant;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-16">save me in your steadfast love!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14349" class="text Ps-31-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, let me not be put to shame,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-17">for I call upon you;</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-17">let the wicked be put to shame;</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-17">let them go silently to Sheol.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14350" class="text Ps-31-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>Let the lying lips be mute,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-18">which speak insolently against the righteous</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-18">in pride and contempt.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14351" class="text Ps-31-19"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>Oh, how abundant is your goodness,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-19">which you have stored up for those who fear you</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-19">and worked for those who take refuge in you,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-19">in the sight of the children of mankind!</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14352" class="text Ps-31-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>In the cover of your presence you hide them</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-20">from the plots of men;</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-20">you store them in your shelter</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-20">from the strife of tongues.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14353" class="text Ps-31-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Blessed be the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-21">for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-21">when I was in a besieged city.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14354" class="text Ps-31-22"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>I had said in my alarm,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-22">“I am cut off from your sight.”</span></span><br><span class="text Ps-31-22">But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-22">when I cried to you for help.</span></span></p>
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<p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14355" class="text Ps-31-23"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Love the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, all you his saints!</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-23">The <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> preserves the faithful</span></span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-23">but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.</span></span><br><span id="en-ESV-14356" class="text Ps-31-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>Be strong, and let your heart take courage,</span><br><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-31-24">all you who wait for the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>!</span></span></p>
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