Life!
You, O Lord my God,
snatched me from the jaws of death! ~ Jonah 2:6 (NLT)
The Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. ~ 1 John 3:8 (NLT)
Lord, you are victorious! You have whipped the devil -- rescuing us from certain death. Keep me mindful of the victory so that I don't slip back into the old ways. I need you to help me become all about life. I'm not going to give the devil the time of day. He's not even worth complaining about. I'm going to pour all my energy into the life that you have secured -- leaving the old behind. 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)
