Grow!
Love the Lord your God. Walk in all his ways... ~ Joshua 22:5 (CEB)
I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. ~ Philippians 1:9-10 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
When we actually love the Lord we will be growing in godliness.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for the way that you love us. Even though I'm grateful, I don't make godliness I high priority in my life. I'm happy to just cruise along with the way things are. I need your intervention so that I can grow in love and understanding -- living a pure and blameless life -- all in preparation for the day when Christ returns and the ways of his kingdom will be the norm. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
