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 10:1-18. How God delivers the oppressed. Is my church clear on the difference between Christian and Marxist theories of oppression? Why does it matter?
Isaiah 8:1-22. Verse 14, when has God been for me not a sanctuary but a stone to stumble over? What did I learn? Present application?
James 3:13-18. Why do Americans at present, in debating how to govern ourselves, have so much strife and so little of the wisdom that God gives? What is my church doing about it? My role?
Luke 16:14-18. Verse 15, what’s an example of how I may have to choose today between valuing the things of the world or the things of God?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.