Today's Reading July 12

Good morning. This space MAY be vacant tomorrow: I am leaving on a brief overnight trip later on today and may not have access in the morning.
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This morning's Old Testament reading is again in the Psalms, chapters 7, 8, and 9
I love the Psalms, I love to sing unto the Lord. Perhaps ''make a joyful noise'' describes it well enough, but it's good to know that the effort follows a long tradition of pouring out your soul to the Lord. The psalmist ''done good''.
Some of our ''praise and worship'' songs come straight from the Psalms here. For examaple:

Chapter 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Matt 21:16
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Heb 2:6
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Heb 2:7
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Heb 2:7,8 1 Cor 15:27 Eph 1:22
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

We sang it a few years ago in a version called ''The Majesty and Glory of Your Name'', and it is wonderful.
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This evening's New Testament reading is from the Acts, chapter 17, verses 1 through 15.
The missionary journey continues, now into Thessalonica. Just a few men, filled with the spirit, and you could tell they'd been there.

6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

I like that phrase. ''turned the world upside down''.
and

10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

When the Good News is proclaimed, the world changes.
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