LOVING STRANGERS
LEVITICUS 19:34 (MSG)
Treat the foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own.
ROMANS 12:13 (NTE)
Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's people extend hospitality to outsiders.
PRAYER
Gracious God, you are my salvation. When I wander in the wilderness of my own making, I don't want to love the alien as myself. I am lost. Save me from my illusions. Show me your love for me, an alien. Help me as your beloved child to love truly and with justice the stranger you bring before me. Amen. (Daily Texts, Ground Up Grace edition)
*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)
