Top priority
It's way better to be poor while living a life characterized by honesty and justice than to be rich while living a life characterized by dishonesty and injustice. ~ Proverbs 16:8 (ABP)
Don’t run roughshod over the concerns of your brothers and sisters. Their concerns are God’s concerns, and he will take care of them. ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:6a (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
In God's eyes treating people right is a top priority.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for looking out for me.
For me, though, it's nice when justice happens for others but there are so many other priorities in my life. I'm not as passionate about justice as you. Again, I am asking you to help me reset my priorities so that they are aligned with your passions. I doubt I will ever have a lot of money but I expect that you will make me rich in other ways. 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)
