Daily Reflection

Warning Against Worldliness

James 4:1-10

Psalms 55:7-11, 23

6And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; 7yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah] 8I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest." 9Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city. 10Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it, 22Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Mark 9:30-37 Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time

30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise." 32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him. 33And they came to Caper'na-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" 34But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest. 35And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all." 36And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37"Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me."

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