DO GOOD
PROVERBS 3:27 (NLT)
Do not withhold good from those who deserve it
when it’s in your power to help them.
2 THESSALONIANS 3:13 (NLT)
Never get tired of doing good.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
When it comes to seeking justice for the oppressed and good for those in need, stay on task.
PRAYER
Good God, thank you for the way that you look out for us and call us to participate with you in extending your goodness. I confess that I'm sometimes stingy. It's not that I don't want to help others, it's just that I get so caught up in my own stuff that I don't really feel compelled to extend myself for others. Free me from being consumed with the world of my own making. Give me a heart for the needy that transcends circumstances -- and energy from your Spirit to serve. By your grace, I'm going to stay on task. 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)
