Healing the blind
Boxing Day
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. ~ Psalm 146:8a (NLT)
I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call... ~ Ephesians 1:18 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is in the business of healing physical and spiritual blindness.
PRAYER:
Generous God, I'm in a good Christmas mood -- grateful especially for the gift of your Son sent into the world. He came to heal us. Sometimes I resist healing -- because blindness is so familiar -- even comfortable. I'm slow to embrace change but eventually I'll come around. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you.* Amen.
*Written by Paul Joseph Baloche. © Capitol Christian Music Group
*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)
