The light of Christ
The 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Thus may all God’s enemies perish, while his lovers be like the unclouded sun. ~ Judges 5:31 (MSG)
You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light... ~ Ephesians 5:8 (GNT)
KEY IDEA:
Our exposure to the light of the Lord makes us shine like him.
PRAYER:
Lord, I'm thankful for the light of Christ who has come into the world to shine. I confess that I worry about all the darkness in the world. I want to trust that your light will outshine it. But at times I have doubts. Help me to trust you more so that I can shine with the light of Christ. 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)
