Come, Lord Jesus! Come!
The 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
Rip the heavens apart!
Come down, Lord;
make the mountains tremble. ~ Isaiah 64:1 (CEV)
Then the Son of Man will be seen coming in the clouds with great power and glory. ~ Mark 13:26 (CEV)
Come down, Lord! Even though I am not as ready as I should be, I am eager for your coming. I look forward to justice for the poor. I look forward to knowing you more fully. I look forward to living in greater harmony with you. And I want to start all of that even before you come to shake things up. Help me to prepare and to prepare others. I'm going to live in the shadow of your hope. 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)
