No foolin'
Perhaps you're good at fooling people. But how can you possibly imagine that God is so gullible? ~ Job 13:9b (ABP)
Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith. If you pass the test, you will discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn’t living in you, you have failed. ~ 2 Corinthians 13:5 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Don't be so gullible as to think that you can fool God. If Christ is living in you it will show inside and out.
PRAYER
Gracious God, thank you for sending the living Christ to live in me. I confess that I've gotten pretty good at fooling myself into believing that I'm more Christ-like than I am. Put me to the test so we can cook out the impurities and so that Christ can fully live through me. I'm going to become more realistic about who I am and what I can become. 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)
