All honor
Who compares with you among gods, O God? Who compares with you in power, in holy majesty, In awesome praises, wonder-working God? ~ Exodus 15:11 (MSG)
And we know that the Son of God came so we could recognize and understand the truth of God—what a gift!—and we are living in the Truth itself, in God’s Son, Jesus Christ. This Jesus is both True God and Real Life. Dear children, be on guard against all clever facsimiles. ~ 1 John 5:20-21 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
Put your trust in the one true God, who is known through Jesus Christ, and him alone.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for revealing your glorious self through Jesus. No one compares! I confess, though, that I push the limits and way too often rely on lesser powers to solve problems. And I tend to admire people and organizations which want my allegiance. Lord, help me to limit my allegiances to you and the forces which are aligned with you. I am going to save all honor for you. 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)
