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 33:1-22. Verses 18 and 22, do I regard hope as a quality of strength or weakness for the person I want to be; realistic or unrealistic? What specific hopes shall I bring to God’s altar today?
Ezekiel 28:1-26. How God will crush the self-exaltation of mighty Tyre and Sidon. Is America susceptible to the smug materialistic pride described here?
I Corinthians 11:2-16. Verses 11 and 12, by commission and omission in all my church’s ministries, are we fostering conflict between the sexes or mutual Christly love between the sexes?
John 7:1-9. Jesus’ relatives try to tell him how to do his work better. Do I tend to treat Jesus’ teachings—for example,, the Sermon on the Mount—more as recommendations than as commands?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.