Justice
Manifest your faithful love in amazing ways
because you are the one
who saves those who take refuge in you... ~ Psalm 17:7a (CEB)
Won’t God provide justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he be slow to help them? ~ Luke 18:7 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Turn to God to make things right.
PRAYER:
Righteous God, you are passionate about justice. It flows from your love -- your faithfulness... You want to make things right for those who are vulnerable and who call out to you. I confess, though, that I'm one of those people who tries to take justice into his own hands. I want people to think of me as a hero. Help me to point people to you as Savior. For you are the one who sent the Savior into the world. And the more fully we embrace your salvation the more we know of your love, faithfulness, and justice. I'm going to trust you to make things right. 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)
