Bible Sunday 4/6: Stolen Patrimony

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 109:1-31. Against whom do I feel animosity, bitterness, or resentment today? How can I give those feelings over to God and get back to loving my enemies? What’s at stake?

Zechariah 1:1-21. If God has visions to show me, angels to instruct me, and a calling to place on me, how shall I get myself ready today to receive all that and act on it?

I Corinthians 7:10-19. Thinking about the people that God has placed closest to me in this earthly life, who particularly needs me to “be Christ” to them right now? How shall I go about that today?

Matthew 21:33-46. Verse 38, down through the ages, why is the worldly mind so desperate to be rid of Jesus? In what subtle form does that impulse even operate on me?

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To go deeper, see interpretive notes by Bible scholar Patrick Reardon for many of this week's readings.