Family
Look at how good and pleasing it is
when families live together as one!... It is there that the Lord has commanded the blessing:
everlasting life. ~ Psalm 133:1,3 (CEB)
Love each other like the members of your family. Be the best at showing honor to each other. ~ Romans 12:10 (CEB)
KEY THOUGHT:
Honor everyone in the community of Christ as family members, for that is what we are.
PRAYER:
Heavenly Father, thank you for adopting me into your family. I acknowledge that I don't get along with all the people in your family. Some of them are real jerks. Help me to not judge them and to embrace them all in spite of our differences. I'm am going to avoid criticizing people and I'm going to honor even the people with whom I disagree so that Christ will be honored. 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)
