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 119:89-128. Verse 105, what specific path am I walking today, where I need God’s light to keep from straying or falling?
Leviticus 23:1-44. God ordains the annual cycle of feasts to keep Israel faithfully devoted to him. How shall I maintain such faithfulness now that both the Jewish year and the Christian year are widely disregarded?
Acts 5:33-42. Again, for at least the third time now, the new Christians ignore rabbinical warnings to stop preaching Jesus Christ. What is the biggest risk I ever took for Jesus?
John 18:28-40. How does Pilate’s skepticism, “What is truth,” dominate our modern world? How do the person and word and work of Jesus equip me to live out a decisive reply, even this very day?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.