Studying this morning's four readings from the St. James Daily Devotional Guide (click to subscribe), I examined myself with these questions. Where is your self-examination leading today?
Psalms 34:1-22. Verse 4, in that God is omnipresent, what’s involved in setting myself to seek him? What purpose, focus, and effort are required? What must I move toward and move away from? Resolve for today?
II Chronicles 21:1-20. Bad King Jehoram: murderous, idolatrous, disastrous, doomed. Looking about us today, with the wicked in so many positions of power, how should the Christian pray?
Revelation 2:1-11. Verses 4 and 5, if this is Jesus’ summons to me, to rekindle my first love and resume doing my first works, what would that look like from moment to moment today?
Luke 21:7-19. Verse 17, how does the world’s hatred of me and my church, for Jesus’ sake, press in upon us in America at present? Faced with that, what are my defense and my duty?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.