Pursue Christ's agenda
"Instead of claiming to know what God says, ask questions of one another, such as ‘How do we understand God in this?’ But don’t go around pretending to know it all, saying ‘God told me this . . . God told me that. . . .’" ~ Jeremiah 23:35 (MSG)
So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. ~ Colossians 3:1 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
As we live the resurrection life with Christ we will be pursuing the agenda that Christ is implementing.
PRAYER:
Risen Savior, I thank you for the new life that is mine because of the Easter event. Forgive me for pretending to know more about how that works out and what you are doing than I actually do. I treat my educated speculation as fact. Give me the humility to focus instead on living out your agenda. I don't need to be the know-it-all expert in all things spiritual. Give me the wisdom to keep my mouth closed. And please give me the wisdom to speak.
I'm going to pursue your agenda over mine. 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)
