Belonging to God
We’ll never again say ‘our god’
to something we’ve made or made up. ~ Hosea 14:3 (MSG)
Everything belongs to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. ~ 1 Corinthians 3:22b-23 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Because we are connected to Christ our allegiance is only to the one true God.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are the one God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. No other beings, forces, or powers are even in your league. So why is it that I fall prey to fake gods -- posers? I have no good answer for that. But I know that I need a strengthened connection to Christ Jesus. And only you can make that happen. So I am expressing my desire that my life would be all about Jesus -- and him alone. 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)
