Wednesday, December 17, 2014

God provides

It’s useless for you to work from early morning
until late at night
just to get food to eat.
God provides for those he loves even while they sleep. ~ Psalm 127:2 (NIRV)

Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. ~ 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT)

God, I know that you care about me. You have proven that over and over again. Thank you. Frankly, though, the reason I keep worrying about things is because I kind of enjoy it. I know that there is little I can do to change the direction of history -- but I still like to think that I'm the kind of person who can make it happen -- and that it all rests on my shoulders. I feel important when I worry. Help me to see my own role in the world more clearly. Help me, please, to relax and to not take myself so seriously. I'm going to go about my tasks this day trusting in your care. I pray this in the name of Jesus, the great shepherd, who leads and cares for his flock. Amen.
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DAILY TEXTS

The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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