Meditation of the Day

"All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You, and we have not been false to Your covenant.  Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from Your way; yet You have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.  If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this?  For He knows the secrets of the heart.  Yet for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.  Awake!  Why are You sleeping, O Lord?  Rouse yourself!  Do not reject us forever!  Why do You hide Your face?  Why do You forget our affliction and oppression?  For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.  Rise up; come to our help!  Redeem us for the sake of Your steadfast love!" ~ Psalm 44:17-26 ESV

Meditation of the Day

"But You have rejected and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.  You have made us turn back from the foe, and those who hate us have gotten spoil.  You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.  You have sold Your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.  You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.  You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.  All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger." ~ Psalm 44:9-16 ESV

Meditation of the Day

"O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds You performed in their days, in the days of old: You with Your own hand drove out the nations, but them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, but them You set free, for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but Your right hand and Your arm, and the light of Your face, for You delighted in them.  You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!  Through You we push down our foes; through Your name we tread down those who rise up against us.  For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.  But You have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.  In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to Your name forever." ~ Psalm 44:1-8 ESV

Our Bible Blog is Moving!

Hi readers, it's Chandler S.  I'm writing this post to announce the relocation of another one of my blogs, The Mr. Buckley Memorial Bible Mission.  I am getting very tired of the longer-than-needed web address, so I've decided to change it.  I will put the address on the blog before it relocates and will advertise it here as well.  The blog isn't just moving to another web location, the address is changing.  SO IF YOU'RE A READER OF THE MR. BUCKLEY MEMORIAL BIBLE MISSION, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DON'T IGNORE THIS POST.  I will be putting out reminders and alerts on at least 2 of my 3 blogs as the day of relocation (March 1, 2016) gets closer, but I'm not responsible if you miss the reminders and we relocate and you don't know the address.  That's why I'm giving you over 2 months.  So please make sure you see this.  Thank you, and have a good night! ~ Chandler S.

Meditation of the Day

"Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!  For You are the God in Whom I take refuge; why have You rejected me?  Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?  Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and Your dwelling!  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise You with the lyre, O God, my God.  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him; my salvation and my God." ~ Psalm 43:1-5 ESV

Meditation of the Day

"As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When shall I come and appear before God?  My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"  These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.  My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.  Deep calls to deep at the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.  By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.  I say to God, my Rock: "Why have You forgotten me?  Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"  As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Hope in God; for again I shall praise Him, my salvation and my God." ~ Psalm 42:1-11 ESV

Meditation of the Day

"Blessed is the one who considers the poor!  In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; You do not give him up to the will of his enemies.  The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness You restore him to full health.  As for me, I said, "O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You!"  My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?"  And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.  All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.  They say, "A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies."  Even my close friends in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.  But You, O Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them!  By this I know that You delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.  But You have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in Your presence forever.  Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!  Amen and Amen." ~ Psalm 41:1-13 ESV