Don't quit hoping
O Lord, you alone are my hope.
I’ve trusted you, O Lord, from childhood. ~ Psalm 71:5 (NLT)
So we do not give up. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day. ~ 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NCV)
KEY IDEA:
Since our hope is in the Lord we should continue hoping -- even when we grow old and our bodies don't work as well.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for sustaining me for my many years. Like the psalmist, I've trusted in you since I was a child. And you have never let me down. At times I let you down and don't act faithfully. I have no good excuse or explanation for my behavior because you have been so good to me. Please continue to renew my inner life so that I do not become discouraged. I'm going to bank my hope with you. 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)
