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. Verse 2 KJV, how can Zion, the capital of one small nation, be the joy of the whole earth? Verses 12 and 13, how can I walk about Zion today, from 8000 miles away? Why should I?
Jeremiah 33:1-26. Jeremiah, still in prison, receives God’s promise of Jerusalem restored. Walking today by faith, not by sight, what vision of better times to come shall I ask the Lord to show me?
I Timothy 3:14-16. Verse 15, do I regard the church as my point of contact with the living God, my pillar of truth, or as something less than that? If it is something less, why bother with it at all?
Matthew 21:23-32. Related, aren’t some Christian leaders like these Jewish leaders, drifting with the culture? Does my church go with the flow or stand in the storm? What can I do about it?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.