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 147:1-20. Verse 3, where is there right now, for me or someone I know, a heartbreak that needs healing or a wound that needs binding up? Shall I entrust it to God, not as a last resort but as a first resort?
Exodus 12:1-51. What does the Passover tell me about the character of God and the situation of humankind, here and now in “modern times” no less than eons ago? What are its promise to me and its demand on me?
I Peter 2:11-25. Verses 19-21, what does it look like for me to follow Christ’s example of undeserved suffering?
John 3:14-21. By what attitudes and actions shall I stand with Jesus today, loving the light and hating the darkness, choosing life by choosing him?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.