Sing to the Lord!
Sing to the Lord! Bless his name!
Share the news of his saving work every single day! ~ Psalm 96:2 (CEB)
When you meet together, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, as you praise the Lord with all your heart. ~ Ephesians 5:19 (CEV)
Lord, you put a song in our hearts. And you have invited us to sing it with you -- on stage, in the shower, at school, at work, and at home. How cool is that! The thing is that I'm not much of a singer on my own. Whenever I try to sing apart from you, or a song different from yours, it comes out pretty awful and I end up making a fool of myself. I think you must have made me to be a one-song person. So I'm going to focus on singing your song -- to you -- and with you -- wholeheartedly. 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)
