Humility
The Lord All-Powerful
has chosen a day
when those who are proud
and conceited
will be put down. ~ Isaiah 2:12 (CEV)
John the Baptist said: "Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’" ~ Luke 3:8a (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
God is going to bring down the smug and arrogant.
PRAYER:
Lord All-Powerful, I'm eager for the day when you will humble the people who are ruining our lives. Help me to live with true humility so that I don't end up going down with them. It is really easy to over-estimate how important I am. I want to walk humbly with you and to be on your side on the day of reckoning -- when Jesus, the humble king, returns. 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)
