God's wallet
The silver and the gold belong to me, says the Lord of heavenly forces. ~ Haggai 2:8 (CEB)
Make for yourselves wallets that don’t wear out—a treasure in heaven that never runs out... Where your treasure is, there your heart will be too. ~ Luke 12:33-34 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
It makes the most sense to invest our wealth with the Lord, to whom it all belongs anyway.
PRAYER:
Lord,
THANKS: I'm grateful that you are so generous and that you let us mange (and even use) some of the great wealth that belongs to you.
REGRETS: Sometimes I forget that it belongs to you and I try to use your wealth for things I want -- without even asking you.
INTERCESSION: Help me to become a faithful trustee and a generous person.
PURPOSE: I'm going to follow Jesus and live faithfully and generously.
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)
