Treating others well
I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and dishonesty. ~ Isaiah 61:8 (CEB)
Don’t run roughshod over the concerns of your brothers and sisters. Their concerns are God’s concerns, and he will take care of them. ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (MSG)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
How we treat others is important to God.
PRAYER
God, I am so grateful for the way that you treat me. Even when I'm a jerk you're kind to me. I confess that I'm not so careful with others -- with their feelings, possessions, and aspirations. I just get going with my own plans and it's so easy to not even notice their concerns. Help me to be more sensitive and fair in the way that I treat others. I want my life to consistently reflect the generosity I've experienced through Christ Jesus. 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)
