Serving with gifts
You will be called The Priests of the Lord;
Ministers of Our God... ~ Isaiah 61:6 (CEB)
This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. ~ 2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)
Lord, you have gifted all of us so that we can serve you. Thank you for the privilege of serving. Sometimes, though, I prefer to let other people serve. They all seem to have stronger gifts than mine. I know that this is false humility mixed with a bit of laziness. Help me to light the spiritual fire that you have put in me. I can't do that on my own. I want to be a simple but good servant. 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 -- 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)
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)
