Today, I am reading and commenting on  Matthew 23-24.

Today’s passage begins with Jesus warning us against lifting some people up as more righteous than ourselves, from giving titles to people which imply that they are intermediaries between God and ourselves.  He warns us that such people do everything for people to see so that they might be admired for their apparent righteousness and that they do not practice what they preach.  Jesus further warns that elevating people by giving them titles which suggest their understanding of God supersedes what we are capable of is a form of idolatry.  We cannot surrender our responsibility to use our abilities to understand what God desires of us to someone else.  We are to neither hold ourselves up as exemplars of righteousness whom others should follow nor should we hold someone else up as more righteous than ourselves for us to follow.  When Paul wrote to the Corinthians that they should imitate him, he made clear they were to do so only insomuch as he imitated Christ.  When  we hold someone up as a model to follow it should be because we see Christ through their actions, but we are still responsible to study Scripture for ourselves, and listen the the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.