PRACTICAL FAITH
LEVITICUS 20:8 (NLT)
Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD who makes you holy.
MATTHEW 7:24 (CEB)
Jesus said, "Everybody who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise builder who built a house on bedrock."
SUMMARY SENTENCE
The person who puts God's instructions into practice is the the person on solid ground.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for giving us enough instruction to live solid and meaningful lives. I confess that I give a lot of lip service to your directions without nearly so much actual practice. I'm more talk than do. Show me where I need to start doing -- the instructions that I need to put into practice. I'm going to build my house on solid rock. 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)
