Ancestor faith
The 7th Sunday after Epiphany
The Lord will be happy to do good things for you, just as he did for your ancestors. ~ Deuteronomy 30:9 (CEV)
I also remember the genuine faith of your mother Eunice. Your grandmother Lois had the same sort of faith, and I am sure that you have it as well. ~ 2 Timothy 1:5 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is happy to bless generations of genuine faith.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for my parents and their parents -- and all those who went before them cultivating faith in their lives. Sometimes I am so focused on the here and now, that I do not appreciate what you have given to us through the ancestors. I want to become like them -- models of faith for my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and... I'm going to live my life with that legacy in mind. 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)
