TALK LESS, DO MORE
ISAIAH 29:13 (MSG)
These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their hearts aren’t in it.
1 JOHN 3:18 (CEV)
You show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Legitimate faith is visible through the way we treat others.
PRAYER
God, you are the one worthy of grand worship. And we're good at staging big faith productions. But, apparently you're mostly interested in less grandiose acts of kindness that flow from the heart. Please repair my heart so that I can live with genuine faith. I'm going to talk less and do more, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
