TODAY’S DAILY READING: Esther 3-4 & 1 Corinthians 4
Old Testament: Esther 3- Living Differently
Esther 3:8
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.”
Haman’s problem with Mordecai and the Jewish people as a whole was not that they… Read More
Esther 4- Platforms
Esther 4:14
“For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
It is not easy to figure out why one person is given certain gifts and opportunities, that… Read More
New Testament: 1 Corinthians- Puffed Up
1 Corinthians 4:6-7
“. . . that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?”
Paul warns of the danger of pride. He refers to it as being puffed up; a term that has withstood the test of time, and is still used today. When we see… Read More
Jim Gallagher 