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 34:1-22. Verse 8, what’s the difference between actually tasting God’s goodness and just thinking or talking about it? Action point for today?
Jeremiah 41:1-18. Anarchy and bloody strife among the conquered Israelites. God seems entirely absent from this story. Is our country trending this way? What is my church doing about it?
Romans 16:1-16. Verse 1, servants of the church. Verse 3, my helpers in Christ. If I wrote up an honor roll of the disciples I most admire and depend on, whose names would be on it?
Matthew 24:36-44. Jesus warns me to be like Noah, waiting and preparing for the storm to break. What does that concretely look like in the way I think and act today?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.