Light!
Or suppose I said, “I’ll hide
in the dark
until night comes
to cover me over.”
But you see in the dark
because daylight and dark
are all the same to you. ~ Psalm 139:11-12 (CEV)
Jesus told us that God is light and doesn’t have any darkness in him. Now we are telling you. ~ 1 John 1:5 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God can see in the dark so there is no hiding from him. We should then live in the light.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for the light which makes my life better. But silly me -- I try to hide in the dark when I'm not living according to your way. Flood my life with your light so that I can better see the benefits of following Jesus.
It only makes sense to build my life within the light. I make fewer mistakes that way. 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)
