Peace
You give hope to people
everywhere on earth,
even those across the sea. ~ Psalm 65:5 (CEV)
So Christ came and preached the Good News of peace to all -- to you Gentiles, who were far away from God, and to the Jews, who were near to him. ~ Ephesians 2:17 (GNT)
KEY IDEA:
Christ came to bring peace to all people.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are the Prince of Peace. Your agenda is peace for all people. My agenda is peace for me.
And I admit that my agenda usually takes priority over your agenda. I need you to help me see how your agenda is the key to my peace. I know that it will only come into focus as I center my attention on Christ himself. So please help me to do that. I'm going to become an operative for the Price of Peace. 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)
