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 49:1-20. Verse 15, in what practical way is everything different for me today, in that God has redeemed my soul from the power of the grave?
Numbers 25:1-18. How do compromise, laxity, and easy tolerance tend to blur the radically Christian identity of people in my church? What’s to be done?
Acts 15:22-29. Verse 26, risking one’s life for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. What risk does Jesus want me to take for him here and now?
Mark 6:30-44. Jesus feeds the five thousand. Where in my life right now is there a crisis of scarcity and lack, waiting to be transformed by God into a miracle of abundance—if only my faith suffices?
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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.