Mid Afternoon Meditation 1-5-17

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 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalm 35:19,20

Have you ever had people in your life who refuse to keep peace with you even though you are just trying to stay “quiet in the land”? What is the best way to deal with such situations?

Evening Meditation 1-4-17

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I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. Psalm 35:18.19

Is praising God among people easy or difficult for you? What makes it so?

Mid Afternoon Meditation 1-3-17

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 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. Psalm 35:14-17

The word darling is the word yä·khēd’ and it means,

only, only one, solitary, one

  1. only, unique, one

  2. solitary

  3. (TWOT) only begotten son

It is translated as “darling” twice in the old testament and as “only” 6 times. The NLT translates this bit as “save my own life from the lions”. What do you think David is saying by using this word?

Morning Direction From Scripture 1-3-17

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 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. Psalm 35:14-17

Note David asks God to rescue his soul. What do you think he is asking here?