Humblest of people
My heart rejoices in the Lord! ~ 1 Samuel 2:1 (NLT)
Mary said,
"With all my heart I glorify the Lord!
In the depths of who I am I rejoice in God my savior.
He has looked with favor on the low status of his servant."
~ Luke 1:46-48 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Delight in the Lord, for he takes delight in using the humblest of people.
PRAYER
Gracious God, I marvel at the way you work and whom you choose to use to make it all happen. I confess to being overly ambitious at times and frustrated because I haven't risen as high as I feel that I could go. Help me to keep things in perspective and my personal ambitions in check. I'm going to delight in how you use me -- even if it is in seemingly simple ways. 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)
