Introduction
Psalm 53: In today’s reading foolish people are described as those who have no respect for God, who fail to obey God’s ways, and who harm God’s people.
Today’s Key Verse: Psalm 53:2
God looks down from heaven at people to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.
Reading
53 Fools say to themselves,
“There is no God.”
They are all corrupt,
and they have done terrible things;
there is no one who does what is right.
2 God looks down from heaven at people
to see if there are any who are wise,
any who worship him.
3 But they have all turned away;
they are all equally bad.
Not one of them does what is right,
not a single one.
4 “Don’t they know?” God asks.
“Are these evildoers ignorant?
They live by robbing my people,
and they never pray to me.”
5 But then they will become terrified,
as they have never been before,
for God will scatter the bones of the enemies of his people.
God has rejected them,
and so Israel will totally defeat them.
6 How I pray that victory
will come to Israel from Zion.
How happy the people of Israel will be
when God makes them prosperous again!
Reflect
According to verse 5, what is the fate of evildoers? What are your thoughts about what the writer has conveyed in this psalm?
Pray
Merciful God, I seek to worship you daily and do what is right. Whenever I stray, I remember your steadfast love and know I can return to you and seek your forgiveness. In your holy name, I pray. Amen.
Tomorrow’s Reading
Psalm 73: The justice of God.
