Reverend Sandy Young, Pastor Emeritus Blacksburg Christian Fellowship, writes a tri-weekly blog commenting on Bible readings. He starts from Genesis and goes to Revelations. No verse is missed. The next year he repeats the process, but not the comments he made the previous year:

I especially like a comment he made this week:

“THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM is the problem of the heart,” may be a good summary of a theme seen in both our OT and NT readings. It is much easier to clean up the outside of our life – what others see – rather than our heart with all of its defiled intentions, motives, malice, envy, idols, and impure desires (Matt 15:18-19). Hypocrisy is an ever-present danger for those of us who claim to follow the Lord. In our heart of hearts are we seeking to love the Lord or the things of the world (1 John 2:15-17)? One of the purposes of the continued preaching about the law, sin, and grace is that we might always be aware of our need for growth in holiness in our inner being (Eph 3:16). We still come with empty hands to receive his grace and mercy! We should be praying for a continued vision of the excellence and glory of Jesus, that we might trust him more fully. He alone is the “fountain of living waters” that we truly need and should deeply desire.