Love
If you really want to live,
you must stop doing wrong
and start doing right. ~ Amos 5:14a (CEV)
Show love in everything you do. ~ 1 Corinthians 16:14
Lord,
THANKS: You have shown us love in everything you've done. We are especially grateful that in love you sent your Son to live among us, die for us, and lead us into new life.
REGRETS: I want to show that kind of love in everything I do. But I don't. There is more of me that needs converting.
INTERCESSION: Save me from fear and selfishness. Help me to show your love through everything that I do.
PURPOSE: If I can love you with everything I am, and love my neighbors with the same energy that I put into loving myself, I know that I will be truly happy. For that is what is right.
Amen.
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)
