Lead me home
I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that I swore to give to your ancestors. ~ Ezekiel 20:41b-42 (NLT)
God doesn’t take back the gifts he has given or forget about the people he has chosen. ~ Romans 11:29 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
I need to trust God because he keeps his word.
PRAYER:
Lord, I'm grateful that you can be trusted. You will not go off and change your mind on a whim. You are reliable. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop me from worrying over the details. I need to stop the worry. Or maybe I need you to stop the worry in me, I don't think I can do it on my own. But I'm going to start moving in that direction. Lead me home. 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)
