Sin
God said: "Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young..." ~ Genesis 8:21 (CEV)
And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins... ~ 1 John 3:5a (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
God isn't interested in punishing people but in relieving them from the burden of sin.
PRAYER:
Dear Lord, thank you for sending Jesus into the world to save us from the sin problem which haunts us from the day we are born. I still have not conquered sin but I know that you have. So I am going to let you live through me. Please help me because I can't even do that much on my own. 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)
