Generous praise
We’ll tell the next generation
all about the praise due the Lord and his strength—the wondrous works God has done. ~ Psalm 78:4 (CEB)
You received without having to pay. Therefore, give without demanding payment. ~ Matthew 10:8 (CEB)
Glorious God, thank you for all the great things you have freely done for me. Sometimes I don't realize all that you have done for me. That's because I'm so busy thinking about all the new things I want you to do for me. It's good that I trust you for new things. But I still need to praise you and thank you for old things. And I need to give as freely as you have given to me. Transform me into a generous person so that I am telling the next generation with deeds -- not just words. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
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)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
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)
