Creation reveals
Look around you: Everything you see is God’s—the heavens above and beyond, the Earth, and everything on it. ~ Deuteronomy 10:14 (MSG)
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. ~ Romans 1:20(NLT)
KEY IDEA:
The creation reveals a lot about God and what is important to him.
PRAYER:
It is an honor to know you and serve you, Lord. Thank you for making yourself known, first through creation and then through Christ the creator. I confess, though that I take a lot about the creation for granted. I don't work very hard to preserve beauty or find alternatives to pollution. Help me to grow more sensitive to the needs of the planet -- and through my observations to grow deeper in my understanding of you. I'm going to live as a Christian environmentalist. 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 — my own 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)
