Great light
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
On those living in a pitch-dark land, light has dawned. ~ Isaiah 9:2 (CEB)
Jesus Christ gave himself to rescue us from everything that is evil and to make our hearts pure. He wanted us to be his own people and to be eager to do right. ~ Titus 2:14 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Jesus is the rescue light shining the way forward.
PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, you throw great light onto the situation. You reveal evil for what it is. When you do that you set us up to oppose evil with righteousness. Help me to become even more eager to do right.
I'm going to make good use of the light I've received and bring honor to the Lord through good actions. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
