Life giver
Transfiguration Sunday
(Lord) you gave life to all. The heavenly powers bow down and worship you. ~ Nehemiah 9:6b (GNT)
The Word gave life to everything that was created
and his life brought light to everyone. ~ John 1:4 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is the source of all life. He should be honored as such.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are the light of the world. You make it all happen and shine your energy into every single place in creation. I take that fact too lightly. I want to make life about me rather than what you are doing. Help me to change my focus so that I am bowing down to worship you with every single breath I breathe. You are worthy! 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)
