Faith and obedience
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do. ~ Genesis 6:22 (CEV)
It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. ~ Hebrews 11:7a (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
Faith and obedience walk hand in hand.
PRAYER:
Lord,
THANKS: I am grateful for the direction you give to us. Sometimes what you say sounds crazy -- always challenging.
REGRETS: Unlike Noah, I worry too much about what might happen if I follow your directions. Actually, I don't worry so much about what people think but I'm concerned that I'm not hearing you correctly.
INTERCESSION: Help me to know the difference between the crazy things you are asking me to do and the many crazy things that my own mind generates.
PURPOSE: I'm going to trust you to give me discernment.
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)
