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 106:1-48. Verses 37 and 38, the slaughter of innocents. What is my church doing about our country’s abortion holocaust? My role?
I Chronicles 18:1-17. David’s proud legacy of conquest and plunder. If this great king, with God’s favor (verses 6 and 13), could pacify the Mideast, why won’t it stay pacified? What did David lack?
Ephesians 3:8-21. How would Paul, the zealous Pharisee and apostle to the Gentiles, answer the above question? How can this passage guide my prayers today for the tumult of current events?
Luke 14:1-6. What opportunities did I miss yesterday to place as high a value on some person as Jesus would do? How can I do better today?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.