Everything...
He is your praise, and he is your God... ~ Deuteronomy 10:21a (CEB)
Jesus Christ says, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’ ~ Revelation 22:13
KEY IDEA:
Everything, from beginning to end, revolves around Jesus.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Jesus, for your involvement in the world and my life. You are the center of everything. Yet I tend to treat you like you are only in charge of a few things. I keep you in a box to be consulted on religious matters and mostly on Sundays. Open my eyes and my heart to your sovereignty over all. I am going to live a life that revolves around you and your agenda. 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)
