Solid teaching
Shout praises to the Lord!
The Lord blesses everyone
who worships him and gladly
obeys his teachings. ~ Psalm 112:1 (CEV)
But don’t let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother’s milk! There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ~ 2 Timothy 3:14-15 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
That which we learned from God's message to us is worth hanging onto because it will guide us into faith and salvation.
PRAYER:
Praise to you, our Lord and God! I'm so thankful for the way that you have been speaking into my life from way before I realized it. On the days when I am tired and drained -- I'm too ready to give up and forget about how your teaching has made my life better. Don't give up on me. Please continue to speak wonderful words of encouragement into my mind and heart. I'm going to stick with what I've learned and believed. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
