LOVING OTHERS
LEVITICUS 19:18 (NLT)
I am the LORD, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.
HEBREWS 13:1-2 (CEB)
Keep loving each other like family. Don’t neglect to open up your homes to guests, because by doing this some have been hosts to angels without knowing it.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Love others in practical ways.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for your eternal love of us. I confess that I have been less than successful in passing that love onto my neighbors. Loving others can be uncomfortable and disruptive of all the other things I love. Show me what I need to let go of so that I can love as Jesus loves. I'm going to love others with the same focus and energy that I naturally pour into myself. 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)
