God's patience
God doesn’t lose his temper.
He’s powerful, but it’s a patient power.
Still, no one gets by with anything. ~ Nahum 1:3 (MSG)
Interpret our Master’s patient restraint for what it is: salvation. ~ 2 Peter 3:15a (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
God is patient with us.
PRAYER:
Lord God, I am grateful for your patience with me. Often I feel that the world is trying to push and rush me. Yet, you confidently wait. Given your patience, I would hope that it would rub off on me and that I would become more patient with others. Yet, that is not the case. Fill me with your patience so that I can help others experience it, too. 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)
