Worship God the Creator
No one helped God spread out the heavens
or trample the sea monster's back. God hung the stars in the sky—the Dipper,
Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south. ~ Job 9:8-9 (GNT)
… Worship the Maker of Heaven and earth, salt sea and fresh water! ~ Revelation 14:7b (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
Only God the creator is worthy of worship.
PRAYER:
Creator God, you have placed us in a truly amazing world. I know that you did not create it all just for me, but I'm in total awe. And I know that we worship you when we do our job and take care of that which you have created. To care for the creation is to acknowledge the worth of the creator. But, like most people, I'm still pretty careless with creation. The earth is full of toxins. The skies are polluted. The salt water in the ocean has become acidic. And the fresh water streams are no longer clear. Forgive our recklessness. Help me to see the next step that I need to take to honor you as the creator. I'm going to worship the Maker of Heaven and earth, salt sea and fresh water!
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)
