Thirsty
God! My God! It’s you—
I search for you!
My whole being thirsts for you! ~ Psalm 63:1 (CEB)
To the thirsty I will freely give water from the life-giving spring. ~ Revelation 21:6 (CEB)
God! My God! You are the object of my desire. I thirst for you because you quench my thirst. Even when I sin, that does not turn off my thirst for you. It may numb it for awhile. But ultimately I come back to you because I am so needy and you are so satisfying. Help me to drink deeply of your living water. And help me to lead other thirsty souls to you. Amen.
Challenging Words
- quench my thirst -- example: When the boy drank the water it quenched his thirst. He was no longer thirsty. To quench is to satisfy or remove the desire for a drink.
*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)
