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 1:1-6. Verses 1 and 2, where does my manner of life fall short of this standard? Action point for this day and the coming year?
Genesis 1:1-31. Verse 27, knowing myself to have been made in God’s image, what identity and status am I invited to claim? What obligation am I under, what to embrace, what to avoid?
Hebrews 11:11-3. In these stormy times, how does my faith help me navigate through the seen and the unseen, to discern between godly understanding and worldly appearances?
Johnn 1:1-18. If Jesus was (is) fully God and fully man, bringing grace and truth, lighting up everyone and everything, what practical difference can that make for me in coping with 2021?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.