HOLINESS
LEVITICUS 22:32 (NLT)
Do not bring shame on my holy name...
1 PETER 1:15 (CEV)
Always live as God’s holy people should, because God is the one who chose you, and he is holy.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Live a life in line with the character and nature of God.
PRAYER
Holy God, you set a high bar for us. I want to live a holy life but ambition gets lost in the clutter of life and I end up going with the flow. Help me to break free from the flow and to live differently. I'm going to think and act differently because you are so different. I'm going to live a "holy" life. 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)
