Thursday, June 11, 2015

Money lover$

Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! ~ Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NLT)

Don’t fall in love with money. Be satisfied with what you have. The Lord has promised that he will not leave us or desert us. ~ Hebrews 13:5 (CEV)
Lord, why do you work so hard to remind me that I shouldn't love money? I don't really have any money to love. But even if I did have money, I'd spend it wisely on good things. And I'd be generous with it. And I wouldn't love it. And... Perhaps, the very fact that I've dreamed so much about money I don't have, means that I'm in love with the idea of money. If I've given so much energy to what I don't have, I wonder how much of my energy would be given to money, if I did have it. Yes, a little extra money might make my life easier. But the promise of your presence clears and eases my mind. For me that is enough. You are enough. Amen.
Challenging Words
  • eases my mind -- idiom for "makes me relax" -- "helps me to be less worried."
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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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