Judge or Savior?
You’ve made the ground quake,
splitting it open.
Now repair its cracks
because it’s shaking apart! ~ Psalm 60:2 (CEB)
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. ~ John 3:17 (NLT)
Almighty God, you are both judge and savior. When you break us down, it is so that you can build us back up. And right now you are in he process of saving us from what we've done to ourselves and the world. That's why you sent your Son Jesus into the world -- not to condemn but to save. Help me to live more freely into this good news. Strip away those things which hold me back from fully embracing you and your good intentions for us. 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)
