PRAISEWORTHY
PSALM 79:13 (MSG)
Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for,
will thank you over and over and over.
We’ll tell everyone we meet how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!
HEBREWS 13:15 (CEV)
Our sacrifice is to keep offering praise to God in the name of Jesus.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Since the Lord is so praiseworthy we let it flow.
PRAYER
God, you are praiseworthy and I have no trouble acknowledging that. But I am easily distracted and during the very moments I should be honoring you I'm off chasing squirrels. Draw my attention back to what's most important during every moment. I want to become a fountain of praise -- to the glory of Jesus. 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)
