Scripture Devotion
After the vapor, the Song — the Bible's answer to what does last.
“He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.”
Reflection
The reading plan's timing preaches by itself: the book after "all is vanity" is a love song. And today's one-chapter letter, Philemon, is love doing hard work — Paul sending a runaway slave home as a brother, paying the debt himself: put that on mine account. Love as banner and love as invoice, the same morning. On a day the culture dresses up as everything dark, the Anchor flies a different flag over the house.