As promised
Here is what the Lord has said
for all the earth to hear: "Soon I will come to save
the city of Zion..." ~ Isaiah 62:11a (CEV)
For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” ~ 2 Corinthians 1:20a (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
God acts as promised. Perhaps he even under promises.
PRAYER:
Faithful Lord, you do what you say you are going to do. That's more than I can say for myself.
I intend to follow through -- but things come up. Please help me to stay on task. Because of your focused faithfulness you are my only hope. So I am going to trust in what you have done and are doing through Christ Jesus, my Savior.
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)
