May 16

Today's Reading

1 Samuel: God intervened again and again, sparing David from Saul. Prophesying was some type of ecstatic utterance in which (apparently) the person doing it was so emotional that they lost awareness of what they were doing.

John: the conversation between Jesus and the religious leaders here in John 8 is perhaps the most adversarial of all those recorded. Jesus clearly identifies Himself as the Son of God ("My Father") and as God Himself ("Before Abraham was, I AM!"). He also clearly states that the religious leader were blind to Him because they, in their ignorance and arrogance, thought that they could reach God through their own self-righteousness.

Psalms today calls me to compassion and generosity in my dealings with others.

Based on Proverbs today, I pray that we all hunger for knowledge and stay open to correction.

How about you?