Jesus, the suffering servant
And because of his experience,
my righteous servant will make it possible
for he will bear all their sins. ~ Isaiah 53:11 (NLT)
For the Human One didn’t come to be served but rather to serve and to give his life to liberate many people. ~ Mark 10:45 (CEB)
KEY IDEA: Jesus served us by sacrificing his life to liberate us.
Lord, thank you for sacrificing your life so that we can live in freedom. Forgive me for not taking full advantage of that freedom -- and for even abusing it. Help me to exercise my freedom in a way that mimics your service. I want to be like you so that when people see me they are drawn to 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)
