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 103:1-22. Verses 3 and 4, four examples of the benefits God gives each of us. What’s a specific instance of each that I’ve personally experienced?
I Samuel 5:1-12. The true and living God humiliates the Philistines’ false god and his followers. How do the worldly elites of today try to borrow Christ’s glory for their own godless purposes?
Acts 3:11-26. Peter uses the lame man’s healing to win souls. In all that my church says and does, is the main goal to make earth more comfortable or to make heaven more available?
John 19:1-13. Pilate, after agonizing, condemns Jesus. Shouldn’t this miscarriage of Roman justice, the world’s best at that time, temper our hope as Christians for civil government ever to keep its promises?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.