Evil and Corruption
All of them have turned bad.
Everyone is corrupt.
No one does good—
not even one person! ~ Psalm 14:3 (CEB)
Rescue us from the evil one. ~ Matthew 6:13
God, there sure seems to be a lot of evil in the world right now. And some of it lives inside me. Thank you for sending Jesus to rescue us -- to rescue me -- from that evil. Thank you for the work you are doing in me to cut out and remove all that is bad and corrupt. I am an incomplete restoration project but I don't feel so depressed or overwhelmed by the evil around me when I consider all that Jesus is doing within me. You are my Savior. I'm going to rely on you to make me better. I don't have it within me to do it myself. 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)
