PrayerBits for Friday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
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Friday

Scripture Lesson: Psalm 52 “You'll get yours”

Time to reflect: A rare Psalm because it is addressing the Psalmist's enemies, the evil ones. In reality this is a literary device. The Psalm would still have been sung in the Temple to God, but “letting” God overhear his conversation with the enemy. However, the upshot is clear, the Psalmist is confident that in the end the enemy will get theirs.

Moving through the day: Do you have the same confidence in God?

Scripture:

Psalm 52

 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?
       Why do you boast all day long,
       you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

 2 Your tongue plots destruction;
       it is like a sharpened razor,
       you who practice deceit.

 3 You love evil rather than good,
       falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
       Selah

 4 You love every harmful word,
       O you deceitful tongue!

 5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
       He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;
       he will uproot you from the land of the living.
       Selah

 6 The righteous will see and fear;
       they will laugh at him, saying,

 7 "Here now is the man
       who did not make God his stronghold
       but trusted in his great wealth
       and grew strong by destroying others!"

 8 But I am like an olive tree
       flourishing in the house of God;
       I trust in God's unfailing love
       for ever and ever.

 9 I will praise you forever for what you have done;
       in your name I will hope, for your name is good.
       I will praise you in the presence of your saints.