HUMILITY
ISAIAH 2:12 (CEV)
The LORD All-Powerful
has chosen a day
when those who are proud
and conceited
will be put down.
1 PETER 5:5 (ABP)
Everyone should wear an attitude of humility -- the kind of humility that lacks all pretense in the way that you relate to one another. Remember, God takes down the proud but lifts up the humble.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God takes down the proud but lifts up the humble; so live accordingly.
PRAYER
Lord God, you showed us what humility looks like when you sent Jesus to live among us. I aspire to humility but I'm a bit blind to my own arrogance. Forgive me for acting as though I'm the most important person around. It comes out in my words, my glares, and my choice of associates. Fill me with the spirit of Christ so that all the conceit is nudged out. I know that this is a big order but I also know that you are the LORD All-Powerful. 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 — 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)
