April 6

Today's Reading

Deuteronomy. The choice is simple, but the choosing of it is often hard. Sin tugs and tempts us, even after we receive Christ's forgiveness and have the power of the Holy Spirit in us. Galatians echoes this passage with the statement, "Whatever you plant, you harvest."

Luke. Jesus warns the religious leaders about their sorrow to come because they crushed people with the Law. When I was young, I saw a situation where people could be kicked out of their church for reading their Bibles on their own. Their leader justified this, saying that the ignorant people weren't qualified to properly interpret it. As I get older, I see more and more how tempting it is for religious leaders to oppress their people and justify it using Scripture.

Psalms. "...each generation should set its hope anew on God..." I think that we must teach our kids not only to obey God's ways, but to place their hope in Him as the ultimate solution to their problems.

Proverbs. Someone who consistently tells the truth doesn't have to remember later what they said with fear that they previously said it differently.

What are your thoughts today? Do you have questions?