Always merciful
Palm Sunday
Please look down from your holy home, from heaven itself, and bless your people Israel... ~ Deuteronomy 26:15a (CEB)
He helps his servant Israel
and is always merciful
to his people. ~ Luke 1:54 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is always merciful
to his people.
PRAYER:
Lord, I am grateful for the ongoing kindness which you show to me. I need to be more responsive to your mercy. I am too ho-hum about it. Reshape my life so that your mercy is a major theme in my life story. I'm going to make sure that I remember your kindness 24/7. 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)
