Sing!
Sing a new song to the LORD. Sing about all the great things he has done. For he has used his matchless power to win the victory! ~ Psalm 98:1 (ABP)
Sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts. ~ Ephesians 5:19b (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Sing to the Lord!
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for the song that you put into my heart. It is easy to sing to you. Sometimes I sing off-key but I enjoy singing to you. Actually, it might be that I enjoy expressing myself and sometimes the fact that I'm singing to you is pretty secondary. Yet you accept the song anyway. Still, I want to do this right. Give me a new song where the focus isn't really on me or my gifts but entirely on you. I'm going to sing a NEW song! 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)
NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)