Love
You made me; you created me.
Now give me the sense to follow your commands. ~ Psalm 119:73 (NLT)
God wants us to have faith in his Son Jesus Christ and to love each other. This is also what Jesus taught us to do. ~ 1 John 3:23 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's command: Trust in Christ and love others.
PRAYER
Thank you, Lord, for your love for us. It's amazing that you still love us even when we don't love you or our neighbors. Change my heart, mind, and actions so that everything about me reflects the love you are extending to me. I want to live according to your instructions. 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)
