Saturday, February 14, 2015

Foundation

Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy. ~ Deuteronomy 5:33 (NLT)

 (Jesus said,) “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.” ~ Matthew 7:24 (NLT)

Lord Jesus, I know far less than I think I know. You, on the other hand, know far more than I realize you know. I'm grateful that you are the one who gives instruction and guidance. You share your wisdom with us because you care about us and want us to prosper.  You have given us a solid foundation for a wise life. Indeed, you are the solid foundation. Therefore, it just makes sense that I avoid building things that are off foundation. Help me so that every thought, word, and deed I construct today are rising up from the foundation. I'm going to follow your building instructions. Amen.

 Challenging Words:
  • Prosperous -- If you are prosperous you are doing well, thriving, strong, and healthy.
  • Foundation -- the base, footing, or infrastructure upon which something is built.
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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 — my own 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)

NRSVUE = New Revised Standard Version (© 2021 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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