PrayerBits for Wednesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Scripture Lesson: Psalm 49:1-12 Can't buy me love

Time to reflect: It is amazingly hard for humans to accept that they can't buy God's love and salvation – not with wealth or good deeds. The price is too high. But God's love is given, freely. God's love is a gift not a purchase.

Moving through the Day: Thank God that you don't have to earn God's love, but that you have it anyway.

Scripture:

 1 Hear this, all you peoples;
       listen, all who live in this world,

 2 both low and high,
       rich and poor alike:

 3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom;
       the utterance from my heart will give understanding.

 4 I will turn my ear to a proverb;
       with the harp I will expound my riddle:

 5 Why should I fear when evil days come,
       when wicked deceivers surround me-

 6 those who trust in their wealth
       and boast of their great riches?

 7 No man can redeem the life of another
       or give to God a ransom for him-

 8 the ransom for a life is costly,
       no payment is ever enough-

 9 that he should live on forever
       and not see decay.

 10 For all can see that wise men die;
       the foolish and the senseless alike perish
       and leave their wealth to others.

 11 Their tombs will remain their houses [a] forever,
       their dwellings for endless generations,
       though they had [b] named lands after themselves.

 12 But man, despite his riches, does not endure;
       he is [c] like the beasts that perish.