Our calling as human beings
When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race. ~ Genesis 5:2 (MSG)
Be the best at showing honor to each other. ~ Romans 12:10 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
God made us so that we excel by honoring others above ourselves.
PRAYER:
Creator Lord, thank you for the unique calling that you have given to us as your people. I'm not so good at being the kind of human you have called me to be. I'm self-centered and will do most anything if I think it will make people respect me. But really, they don't so much respect me as they are afraid of me. Help me to realize the difference as I interact with people. Help me to honor others before myself. I want to live up to the humanity to which you have called me -- us. 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)
