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 53:1-6. Verse 1, what are some specific ways in which the worldly mind says there is no God? What is my church doing to counteract this? My role?
II Chronicles 28:1- 27. Verse 3, Ahaz, another bad king, practices child sacrifice. Is the present-day abortion regime a sin Christians should resist, or a political distraction we should leave alone?
Revelation 5:1-14. What blessings can be mine today from the Lord Jesus in both his identity as the Lion and his identity as the Lamb?
Luke 23:1-12. Pilate and Herod, unlikely allies. As the courage to follow Jesus becomes ever more costly in our time, how shall I prepare day by day?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.