Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Oct 2, 2026, 10:01 AM
Passage Read: Romans 2-3
Meditation Verses: 2:1-2
Thought
It is easy to look at unbelievers and think that they are so repulsive because of their evil deeds, to consider them beyond hope and utterly lost. That is, in effect, how Jews saw Gentiles, even if the Gentiles hadn't done anything notably wrong. Gentiles were just unclean in their eyes because of all the unclean things they did and ate.
Oct 1, 2026, 10:26 AM
Passage Read: Acts 28 - Romans 1
Meditation Verses: Acts 28:24-26
Thought
"Some were being persuaded..., but others would not believe." It amazes me how quickly Paul expected a response, and how quickly he turned to a rebuke and, in effect, a warning of judgment. Some were being persuaded, yet he wasn't afraid to quote Isaiah about the hardness of their hearts and the impossibility of their hearing and seeing and understanding and believing!