Bubblegum Jesus
If my father and mother leave me,
the Lord will take me in. ~ Psalm 27:10 (NCV)
I will be with you always, even until the end of the world. ~ Matthew 28:20 (CEV)
Lord Jesus, my life is full of disappointment -- people who have let me down -- people who have said that they would be a friend -- but then they disappeared. And I confess that occasionally bitterness overtakes me because of the unfaithfulness of others. Save me from wallowing in that hurt. I know that you have been hurt, too. You were betrayed and murdered. Yet you came out on the other side -- victorious over pain and death. You know the way out and if I stick close to you you'll get me there, too. And you'll stick with me like bubblegum on a shoe. You will never be a disappointment and that is enough to go take on the world today. Amen.
Challenging Word
- wallowing -- roll around in, enjoy without restraint. Pigs wallow in mud.
*ABOUT THE
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)
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)
