My God and My Country

My Daily Meditation

The Coming King

1 And he showed me Joshua the high Priest, standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to resist him.

2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord reprove thee, O Satan: even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, reprove thee. Is not this a brand taken out of the fire?

3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the Angel.

4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to depart from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

5 And I said, Let them set a fair diadem upon his head. So they set a fair diadem upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by.

6 And the Angel of the Lord testified unto Joshua, saying,

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my watch, thou shalt also judge mine house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee place among these that stand by.

8 Hear now, O Joshua the high Priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are monstrous persons: but behold, I will bring forth the Branch my servant.

9 For lo, the stone that I have laid before Joshua: upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will cut out the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will take away the iniquity of this land in one day.

Read One Psalm a Day

Psalm Ninety Five

1 Come, let us rejoice unto the Lord: let us sing

aloud unto the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his face with praise: let us

sing loud unto him with Psalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King

above all gods,

4 In whose hand are the deep places of the earth,

and the heights of the mountains are his,

5 To whom the Sea belongeth, for he made it, and

his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel

before the Lord our maker.

7 For he is our God, and we are the people of

his pasture, and the sheep of his hand: today, if ye

will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your heart, as in Meribah, and

as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me,

though they had seen my work.

10 Forty years have I contended with this generation,

and said, They are a people that err in heart,

for they have not known my ways.

11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, saying, Surely

they shall not enter into my rest.