Sins
In keeping with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people... ~ Numbers 14:19 (NLT)
He is God’s way of dealing with our sins, not only ours but the sins of the whole world. ~ 1 John 2:2 (CEB)
Lord, I naturally minimize my sins. I think they are not such big deals. But you thought that my sins were so significant that you figured out a way to deal with them. You sent your Son into the world to disarm them. That makes me feel loved and very special. It makes me want to have nothing more to do with sin. I confess that my intentions are greater than my actions -- but I feel confident that because of your unfailing love you will overcome my failures. And that's good news. 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)
