Light shune
Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God. ~ Genesis 6:9b (CEV)
Make your light shine, so that others will see the good that you do and will praise your Father in heaven. ~ Matthew 5:16 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Rightliving does not just benefit us, but others see and are challenged to consider how they might live to honor God, too.
PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, thank you for empowering us to live compelling lives radiating your light. But I confess that I can be pretty hohum about the whole thing. It's not that I think it is untrue. It's just that I allow competing priorities to capture my imagination and energy. Crank up the power so that your light radiating from my life is the most obvious thing about me. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
