Reading for July 13

This is a ''make-up'' posting - I was traveling yesterday and, while the sign in front of the Super-8 motel advertised 'High Speed Internet'', in practice that was a single desk in the lobby occupied by a drunk and overlooked by a semi-sleeping Hindu desk clerk. So I missed a day.

The morning reading from the 13th is again in the Psalms, chapters 10, 11, and 12. These are almost Job-like in tone and theme - the wicked flourish and the righteous are harried and assaulted, and will the Lord deal with the situation?
This is a theme throughout Scripture, it is as old as mankind. It will probably be a theme until the Lord comes again. This is the result of a fallen world. Until He remakes it in toto, what will happen is that He transforms the believers - that's us - into new creatures, and we should be affecting that world as His representatives.
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The evening reading from the 13th continues in the Acts, chapter 17, verses 16 through 34. Paul is preaching in Athens using as a springboard their altar to ''the Unknown God''. He never seems to miss an opportunity to proclaim Christ. And, bear in mind he walked a very long way for the opportunity to do so. No limo's for him.

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.