Caring
You drink all the wine you want
and wear expensive perfume,
but you don’t care about
the ruin of your nation. ~ Amos 6:6 (CEV)
You obey the law of Christ when you offer each other a helping hand. ~ Galatians 6:2 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
When we care for others in practical ways we are living according to the way of Jesus.
PRAYER:
Kind God, thank you for caring so much that you sent your Son into the world to intervene on our behalf. I wish that I was consistent in the way that I care for people, too. But my wealth tends to make me blind to the needs of others. I want to care but the world expects someone like me to live in a certain way. Help me break my addiction to pleasure and comfort. Help me to care like Jesus. That's my goal. 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)
