Registered
You have rescued me!
I will celebrate and shout,
singing praises to you
with all my heart. ~ Psalm 71:23 (CEV)
…rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. ~ Luke 10:20b (NLT)
Lord, I get so excited when people recognize me -- when they know my name. It makes me feel important. To be recognized by YOU seems like it is beyond imagination. Yet, that's what you do. You recognized me as important enough to send your Son to rescue me. You registered me as a citizen of heaven. Thank you. I'm going to sing praises to you with all my heart. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
