New
I will give them a new heart and a new mind. ~ Ezekiel 11:19a (GNT)
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17 (GNT)
KEY IDEA:
Christ is making everything new and if we are joined to him that newness starts to happen in us,
too.
PRAYER:
Lord God, it is so exciting to hear about how you are remaking creation -- that it will all be new.
Thank you for including people in this newness. I need a new heart and a new mind that will be focused exclusively on serving you. I need all the old to be gone because there is still some of the old life that is clinging to me. But I am going to claim the new life for myself and trust that you will continue the process of making me into a completely new Christ-like being. 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.)