Honoring Jesus
Make my heart focused only on honoring your name. ~ Psalm 86:11b (CEB)
Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead. ~ 2 Timothy 2:8a (CEB)
Powerful God, you are worthy of all honor and obedience. That's how we honor you -- by obeying you -- and only you. For you have raised Jesus from the dead, disarming death for everyone. I confess, though, that sometimes I revisit my old dead ways. At times there is an inexpiable morbid fixation on the dead things that were in my life in the past. Please keep me focused on what is alive -- especially Jesus. I want my whole life to be about honoring him. Amen.
Challenging Words
- inexpiable -- something that cannot be well explained, a mystery
- morbid -- disturbing, gruesome, unhealthy, troubling, worrisome
- fixation -- obsession, preoccupation, addiction, something you can't stop doing, thinking about, or looking at
*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)
