Serving
All the world will know that I, the Lord,
am your Savior and your Redeemer... ~ Isaiah 49:26 (NLT)
The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people. ~ Matthew 20:28 (CEV)
Gracious God, of all beings you deserve to be served. But you choose to serve and to sacrifice so that we can experience freedom. It would be a great insult to you if we did not take advantage of the salvation that you have provided. And it would not make very much sense to ignore such a gift. But my actions and attitudes do not always make good sense. Please extend your redemption to further free me from my ungodliness. I really want to serve you in the same way that you have served me. Help me to see how I can do that today. Amen.
*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 — my own 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)
