Sunday, January 25, 2015

Obey

Everyone should respect you, King of all the nations. You deserve their respect. ~ Jeremiah 10:7a (ERV)

We must obey God rather than any human authority. ~ Acts 5:29 (NLT)

God, you are certainly the ruler over all the people. You are the one who deserves total respect and faithful obedience. This would be a simple fact if it were not for all those people out there who think that they are you! Or at least they think I should respect them in the same way I respect you. Give me the wisdom to deal with all of these misguided and sinful voices. And save me from becoming one of them. Sometimes I forget who I am. It's easy to slip into thinking that everyone should bow to me and my opinions. But that's not going to happen today. I'm going to focus on serving you, King Jesus -- and you alone. Amen.
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The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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