SOLID SPIRITUAL INPUT
PSALM 119:43 (MSG)
Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
your commandments are what I depend on.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4 (MSG)
You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Make sure that you are choosing solid spiritual input.
PRAYER
Glorious God, thank you for speaking truth even when we aren't eager to hear it. I confess that even I find spiritual junk food attractive. Save me from my own fickleness and inconsistency. Grant me the discipline to tune into what you are saying through your word. I'm going to focus on you and your instructions. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
