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.
*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 — 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)
