The message
I have made everything;
that’s how it all came to be.
I, the Lord, have spoken.
The people I treasure most
are the humble—
they depend only on me
and tremble when I speak. ~ Isaiah 66:2 (CEV)
(Paul said) "I now place you in God’s care. Remember the message about his great kindness! This message can help you..." ~ Acts 20:32a (CEV)
Lord, you have been, and continue to be, kind to us. And I'm doing my best to humbly receive your message to the world. I want my life to be shaped by the Jesus message. But there are a lot of competing messages out there, and sometimes my attention drifts in the wrong direction. Help me to stay focused so that I am depending on you -- and you alone. The thing I most need in life is the message of your great kindness. Nothing refreshes me like this message. 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)
