Imitate Christ
Do what is good and run from evil
so that you may live! ~ Amos 5:14 (NLT)
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. ~ Philippians 2:5 (NLT)
KEY THOUGHT:
To experience the life you were designed to experience, adopt the attitude and mindset of Christ Jesus.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Jesus, for establishing a new life and a new creation -- and for inviting us to become a part of it all. I know that you want us to adopt your attitude and mindset for they are the norm in the new creation. Yet, I too quickly allow the mind-set of my peers to define what I find acceptible. Help me to embrace your thinking and attitude. I'm going to live the new life in a new way. 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)
