Creation
Epiphany
Heaven is yours! The earth too!
The world and all that fills it—
you made all of it! North and south—you created them! ~ Psalm 89:11-12 (CEB)
Through Christ God created everything
in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see
and the things we can’t see—
such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him. ~ Colossians 1:16 (NLT)
Creator God,
THANKS: Thank you for creating the world which I enjoy. Thank you for being in charge of it all.
REGRETS: Sometimes I treat creation as though it were all for me. I don't take very good care of what you have made. I waste the water, the air, and the land. I repent of my irresponsibility.
INTERCESSION: Please help me to take your creation as seriously as I take you. Change me into an environmentalist motivated by a desire for your creation agenda.
PURPOSE: I'm going to look at the world in a whole new way.
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 -- a 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)
