Purpose
I am the Lord your God. I am holy, and you must be holy too! ~ Leviticus 19:2 (CEV)
He wanted us to be his own special people, and so he sent the true message to give us new birth. ~ James 1:18 (CEV)
KEY THOUGHT:
God has called us to be on his special team, assigned to carry out his special assignment.
PRAYER:
Dear God, thank you for including me on your team. And you keep me active even though at times I play for other teams on the side. I know that I need to be playing exclusively for you. Coach me through that transition so that my focus is just on playing for you. 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)
