Worries and Cares
The protector of Israel
never dozes or sleeps. ~ Psalm 121:4 (GNT)
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. ~ 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
Rely on God to take care of the problems.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for staying awake. I know that I need to trust you with all the problems. However, I like to hold onto them and find solutions on my own. That doesn't work out so well. Help me to get my strategy straight. I'm going to give all my worries and cares to you, for I know that you care about me. 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)
