Good
How terrible it will be for people who call good things bad and bad things good, who think darkness is light and light is darkness... ~ Isaiah 5:20a (NCV)
For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps. He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone. ~ 1 Peter 2:21-22 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
We need to keep the goal of doing good in sight -- no matter what happens.
PRAYER:
Lord,
THANKS: I'm grateful for the way that you are good and have done so much that is good for me.
REGRETS: I don't always value good as the purpose. I sometimes see it as a means to get what I really want.
INTERCESSION: I need your help in rearranging my priorities. Help me to see the bigger picture and how good fits in.
PURPOSE: I'm going to live up to my calling -- no matter what happens.
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)
