Here is today’s Bible reading: 2 Kings 1:1-2:25; Acts 13:42-14:7; Psalm 139:1-24; Proverbs 17:19-21.

One of my favorite stories in the Bible:  2 Kings 2:23-25 (NIV)  
    From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” [24] He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. [25] And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

A noble prayer each day:

Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)  
    Search me, O God, and know my heart;
        test me and know my anxious thoughts.
    [24] See if there is any offensive way in me,
        and lead me in the way everlasting.