Change your ways
Turn back—right now, each one of you!—from your evil way of life and bad behavior... ~ Jeremiah 25:5 (MSG)
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. ~ Luke 3:8a (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
The only way to prove that we are really on God's side is to change our ways so that we are doing what he says.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for the grace that empowers us to change and follow you. I can't change myself.
As a matter of fact, on my own I don't even desire change. I say that I want to change but I'm so comfortable with even a raunchy life that it is painful to think of changing. So I am looking to you to take me by the hand. Lead me in the new direction. I want my life to be about doing what you want me to do. I repent. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
