Eternal life and know the only true God
Know now then that the Lord your God is the only true God! He is the faithful God, who keeps the covenant and proves loyal to everyone who loves him and keeps his commands—even to the thousandth generation! ~ Deuteronomy 7:9 (CEB)
Jesus prays: This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. ~ John 17:3 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
The only way to really live is to know the only true God.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are the only true God. And you sent your son Jesus Christ into the world to demonstrate how deeply true you are. I'm grateful for the new life that I have because of him. I want to tell everyone about how true and faithful you are -- about how Christ died to save us -- and rose from the dead to start the new creation.
But I am afraid that people won't understand -- that they will think I'm weird. Help me to get past that fear so I can enjoy the eternal life that is already mine. 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)
