Today's Devotion: Matthew 9:36 (New International Version)

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. That passage reminds me of the piece in Handel's Messaiah, All We Like Sheep. All we like sheep have gone astray,we have turned ev'ry one to his own way. Of course, Handel takes his piece from Isaiah 53:6.

Have we gone astray? It sure seems like we have. Everyone to his own way: secularism, the "prosperity gospel, " what next? We need to get back to firm biblical teaching. We can't just reject a passage or a book, because we don't like it. Thank God every day that He has compassion on all of us!

Today's Comments:

My paper on James is coming along fine. I have come to believe that James is not completely about exhortation and diatribe, as one of my research sources puts it. It is also a formula for personal and corporate problem solving through prayer and repentance.