Death is forever doomed
The Sovereign Lord will destroy death forever! ~ Isaiah 25:8 (GNT)
But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is victorious over death and everything associated with it.
PRAYER:
Victorious God, you win! Death is doomed. And so it no longer controls us. Even though I will likely have to experience death, as Christ did, it will not be the final word. I'm so thankful for the new resurrection life initiated by Jesus. And even though I don't let this reality penetrate all my daily activities, I am still convinced it is true. Please push this hope deeper into my heart and my actions. I want to share this extraordinarily good news with everyone. 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)
