Slowness
Think about it—it’s easier to start a fight than end one. ~ 1 Kings 20:11 (MSG)
Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose. ~ James 1:19-20 (GNT)
KEY IDEA:
True heroes derail fights before they start.
PRAYER:
Prince of Peace, thank you for disarming evil at the cross. I want to do things your peaceful way but I have a lot of conflict and anger programmed into my head. My default approach is to react to everything with a fight. Please rewire my soul so that I respond in a new way -- the Jesus way. I'm looking forward to being slow to speak and slow to grow angry. 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)
