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 91:1-16. How am I to go about dwelling in God’s secret place today, and at the same time continue all my proper activities in the earthly here and now?
Ezekiel 1:1-28. Verses 24 and 28, if I could hear just a few words from the voice of the Almighty, relevant to the chapter of life I’m going through right now, what might those words be?
I Corinthians 13:1-13. Verse 8, when Paul says flatly that love never fails (God’s love, reaching me directly from him and through other people) and yet my experience often seems to include such failure—what’s going on?
John 6:1-14. Taking this account of Jesus feeding the multitude as an example of how God’s love never fails, by what thoughts and deeds can I put myself in the way of receiving more instances of this love-in-action?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.