Set free
When you are in trouble,
call out to me.
I will answer and be there
to protect and honor you. ~ Psalm 91:15 (CEV)
Jesus could set people free who were afraid of death. All their lives they were held as slaves by that fear. ~ Hebrews 2:15 (NIRV)
Lord, so much of the trouble I get myself into is related to fear. I am afraid that people will not take me seriously. I am afraid that my life will be insignificant. I am afraid that I will mess up. I am afraid that it will all end badly at some point. So I call out to you again, knowing that you care for and protect me. For you are the kind of God who cares deeply about people -- even broken and silly fearful people. Thank you for being there. I need to call out to you even more often. Help me to do that with every breath I take. 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)
