COMPARING
PROVERBS 3:7 (CEV)
Don’t ever think that you
are wise enough,
but respect the LORD
and stay away from evil.
GALATIANS 6:4 (CEV)
Do your own work well, and then you will have something to be proud of. But don’t compare yourself with others.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Focus more on honoring and obeying the Lord -- and less on comparing yourself to others.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for the opportunity to work. Forgive me for the way that I regularly measure my worth by comparing myself to others. Help me to find my significance in my relationship with you. I'm going to quit comparing myself with others. 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)
