Friday, January 23, 2015

Freedom

I sing praises to the Lord for his great victory! ~ Exodus 15:1 (CEV)

If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. ~ John 8:36 (CEV)

Lord, I want to join in your victory song. For you have certainly won our freedom. Sometimes I still think like a slave. It's hard to adjust to being free. But you stick with us. You continue to nudge us forward into greater freedom. So, I pray that your Hold Spirit would work in my head and heart today. Help me to live as the free person I am. I leave behind all the chains and constraints which belonged to my past. And I bask in the freedom that Christ the Son has won through his death on the cross and victory over the grave. Amen.

Challenging Words
Slave -- a person who is forced to work or act for another person, someone without freedom
Nudge -- to lightly or gently touch or push
Bask -- to enjoy, relax, or take pleasure in
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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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