Light
God’s Message to the family of Israel: "Seek me and live." ~ Amos 5:4 (MSG)
As long as you have the light, believe in the light so that you might become people whose lives are determined by the light. ~ John 12:36 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Let the light of Christ define your life.
PRAYER:
Jesus, you are the light of the world. You starred down the darkness and won an eternal victory. We can now live lives determined by your light. Yet, I'm still drawn to darkness and dark things. Even though I believe in you, what you have done, and that my future rests with you, I have not completely broken from the darkness. Grant me the courage to move forward with you -- to believe that your light is redefining life at every level. Help me to fully embrace what you have done and what you are doing so that I can live as a child of light. 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)
