HONOR GOD
DEUTERONOMY 10:14 (CEB)
Clearly, the LORD owns the sky, the highest heavens, the earth, and everything in it.
REVELATION 14:7 (CEV)
The angel shouted, “Worship and honor God! The time has come for him to judge everyone. Kneel down before the one who created heaven and earth, the oceans, and every stream.”
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Give due honor to God, for everything belongs to him.
PRAYER
Glorious God, you are already worthy of all honor and worship. Forgive me for my "what have you done for me today?" attitude. It is so easy to assert myself and slide into feeling like it's all about me. Help me to get the perspective right. I'm going to open my eyes to the wonder of your creation in order to better understand the creator -- and re-creator. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
