Impressive
With my hands I stretched out the heavens.
All the stars are at my command. ~ Isaiah 45:12b (NLT)
Great and awe-inspiring are your works,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
king of the nations. ~ Revelation 15:3 (CEB)
Amazing, God, you are truly amazing. All creation responds to your commands and eventually all the nations in the world will give way to you, too. If you were so inclined you could force them. But you don't force your true and just ways on any of us -- including me. I'm thankful for the way that you patiently work to get me to where I need to be. Help me to be patient, too -- starting with the way that I relate to you. God, you are truly amazing. 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)
