FULL ATTENTION
JEREMIAH 8:9 (MSG)
Your religion experts have taken you for a ride!
Your know-it-alls will be unmasked,
caught and shown up for what they are.
Look at them! They know everything but God’s Word.
HEBREWS 2:1 (CEV)
We must give our full attention to what we were told, so that we won’t drift away.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Give your full attention to what God says or you'll end up falling in line behind a huckster.
PRAYER
Thank you, Lord, for so freely sharing your wisdom with your people. I acknowledge that at times I don't pay close attention to what you've shared. It's so easy to get distracted by everything new and shiny. Help me to focus so that I'm giving my full attention to you and your ways. I reject all that is false -- even though it is popular. Through Christ Jesus, I'm going to stay the course with you. 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)
