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 23:1-6. Verse 3 KJV, what would it look like for God to be restoring my soul a little more each day, at this point in my life? How would others notice? What’s my role in that process?
II Kings 17:1-41. Having forsaken God, Israel is carried away to captivity in Assyria. What sort of captivity may overtake me, if I fail to stay close to God?
Job 9:21-35. Verse 33, Job despairs that there is no mediator between him and God. Gratefully having the Son to perform that office now (I Timothy 2:5), what specific gap from me to the Father do I need him to bridge?
Luke 6:12-19. Verses 14-16, among Jesus’ twelve apostles, which do I particularly identify with and desire to emulate?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.