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 48:1-14. Verses 12 and 13, how does familiarity with the city of God where I will one day dwell help me get along in the city of man where I have to live now?
Job 25:1-6. Bildad asks how man the worm could ever be loved or valued by God. From honest knowledge of myself, does he have a point? Yet as born again in Christ, how do I answer him?
II Corinthians 3:1-11. Verse 3, related question, if my family and friends were told to regard me as a “letter from Jesus,” what would I want them to read in me? Action point?
Luke 8:11-15. Four kinds of soil in which God’s word may or may not produce fruit. What specific evidence of each can I see in myself?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.