Telling
I didn’t die. I lived!
And now I’m telling the world what God did. ~ Psalm 118:17 (MSG)
When Paul and Silas had been severely beaten, the authorities threw them into prison... Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. ~ Acts 16:23a, 25 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Our witness comes through even during the dangerous times.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for rescuing us from bad people. Sometimes I get annoyed that you allow the bad people to continue on. I need to be reassured that your message goes out even during the difficult times --
perhaps with even more force than during the calm times. The fact is that in the end the resurrection wins.
That's the message worth telling. 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)
