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 73:1-28. Verse 28 KJV, by what attitudes and actions can I draw near God today? What result shall I expect?
II Chronicles 35:1-27. Josiah’s magnificent passover is called the greatest since Samuel’s time (500 years). What person or period should we as Christians look back to as a golden age? Or none at all (why)?
Revelation 11:11-19. Related, verse 15, should we rather be looking ahead to the seventh angel sounding and Christ’s reign commencing? How does that outlook translate into my everyday life here and now?
Matthew 24:29-35. Verse 35, what are some specific words of Jesus that I trust will never pass away, and that I can lean upon in facing the challenges of this day?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.