Supreme leader
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. ~ Psalm 146:3 (NLT)
(Jesus said,) “If one blind person leads another blind person, both of them will fall into a pit.” ~ Matthew 15:14b (NIRV)
Lord Jesus, you are my leader. I acknowledge that you are more reliable than any powerful human being or group of people. Compared to your guidance, theirs is like the blind leading the blind. Of course, your leadership isn't as flashy or sexy as they make theirs out to be. Maybe that's why my attention drifts their direction sometimes. Please keep me on course, help me to stay focused and right in line behind you in all I do, think, and say. You are the supreme leader! 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 -- 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)
