Big shoulders
Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders—
he’ll carry your load, he’ll help you out. ~ Psalm 55:22 (MSG)
Don’t be anxious about anything; rather, bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers and petitions, along with giving thanks. ~ Philippians 4:6 (CEB)
Lord,
THANKS: I grateful for your big shoulders.
REGRETS: I'm sorry that I don't always release my anxieties to you. I mistakenly think that I'm so special that I can carry all my own problems.
INTERCESSION: Lord, I am giving you my problems right now -- even the problems I don't understand.
PURPOSE: I'm going to live without anxiety because my problems are no longer my own. You have taken them onto your shoulders. I'm not planning to take them back from you.
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)
