Loving God
You’re all I want in heaven!
You’re all I want on earth! ~ Psalm 73:25 (MSG)
You have never seen Jesus, and you don’t see him now. But still you love him... ~ 1 Peter 1:8a (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
When we truly love Jesus the love overcomes obstacles and distractions.
PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, I really do love you. It's not because I'm good at love but because you loved me first and gave me this kind of love. But sometimes I get distracted by the glitter and shiny things the world system produces. Help me to ignore those things and to focus on loving you. I'm wanting my whole life to be about loving Jesus. 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)
