The world
Trinity Sunday
God issues his command to the earth—
God’s word speeds off fast! ~ Psalm 147:15 (CEB)
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. ~ Acts 1:8 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
God's message is for the whole earth.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for loving the whole world so much that you sent your Son, Christ Jesus,
into it to sacrifice his life in order to save ours. That really is good news to me. But I live in an insular world. My life revolves around the people on my island -- my family, my ancestors, my friends, my enemies... It's hard to move beyond that world. But you have given me an assignment to be a part of your worldwide witness. I'm not sure what that looks like for me but I am eager to be empowered by the Holy Spirit for that task. 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)
