Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Rotting

If you respect the Lord, you will hate evil. ~ Proverbs 8:13a (CEV)

...consider yourselves to be dead as far as sin is concerned. Now you believe in Christ Jesus. So consider yourselves to be alive as far as God is concerned. ~ Romans 6:11 (NIRV)

Christ Jesus, it seems pretty clear. You have conquered death. So there is no legitimate place for anything that is sinful or evil in my life. Those things are dead. And carrying rotting dead flesh around with me is repulsive. I pray that you would help me to identify and give me the power to remove anything dead that is still lingering in my life. I want to live fully for Christ. And that means getting rid of some things which no longer belong in my life anyway. It's all good. Amen.

Challenging Words

  • Legitimate -- If something is legitimate it rightfully belongs. It is allowable, permissible.
  • Repulsive -- If you dislike something so much that it makes you feel sick, it is repulsive. Icky, troubling.
  • Lingering -- lasting a long time, slow to end
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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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