Forever
The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever. ~ Psalm 121:8 (NLT)
On this earth we don’t have a city that lasts forever, but we are waiting for such a city. ~ Hebrews 13:14 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord maintains a long term perspective.
PRAYER:
Dear God, thank you for watching out for me. Thank you for bringing a forever, long-term perspective to our relationship. I am too shortsighted. Grant me patience so that I can live for the forever. I'm not going to allow short-term issues to dominate my life. 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)
