Proof
Do what I tell you; live what I tell you. I am God. ~ Leviticus 22:31 (MSG)
The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome. ~ 1 John 5:3 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
The proof that we truly love God (and that it's not just empty talk) comes when we live the way he tells us to live.
PRAYER:
Loving Lord, thank you for your commandments. They give us directions for healthy living.
I confess that I often talk more than I walk the love. I'm good at telling people about how I love you but I treat your commandments like they are a difficult burden. Save me from my shallowness. Give me depth of love -- the depth that produces obedient action. I am depending on the love and gracious action of our Savior Christ Jesus. 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)
