Action!
The word is right here and now -- as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it! ~ Deuteronomy 30:14 (MSG)
The crowds asked John (the Baptist), “What should we do?”
John told them, “If you have two coats, give one to someone who doesn’t have any. If you have food, share it with someone else.” ~ Luke 3:10-11 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God expects us to do something in response to his message to us.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for your good word to us. I confess, though, that I know more in my head than I do with my hands or my mouth. Help me to figure out what I need to be doing. I'm going to trust you to make that really clear and commit myself to actually getting up from my seat to act. 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)
