Friday, January 2, 2015

Wealth

The Tenth Day of Christmas

Make me want to obey you, rather than to be rich. ~ Psalm 119:36 (CEV)

Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” ~ Luke 12:15 (NLT)

Jesus, how come you keep reminding us to be cautious about accumulating too much? I'm not a greedy person -- or at least I don't think of myself as one. Well, perhaps sometimes I get caught up in worries over money and I dream about how life would be better if I had more. I'm sorry about that. Even such small mental drifts distract us from trusting you. And they also dull us toward enjoying true riches. I know, though, that you are gracious and forgiving. So I'm going to focus all my energy and attention on following you rather than dreaming about being well-off. 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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