Messengers
Help us, Lord! There is not a good person left; honest people can no longer be found. ~ Psalm 12:1 (GNT)
Be sure to pray that God will make a way for us to spread his message and explain the mystery about Christ, even though I am in jail for doing this. ~ Colossians 4:3 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
The message of Christ needs to be spread regardless of the cost.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for the good news about Jesus. He and his mission were the secret weapons that you were planning to use to turn the world back to you. I want to be a messenger of that secret. I want to make it known.
Pardon me when I am shy and timid about sharing it. I worry too much about how things will work out and I'm not fond of suffering -- or even of people disrespecting me. But the good news packed into that secret is that I don't have to worry and that I am pardoned. It's all good. 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)
NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)