God's generosity
HOLY WEEK
His love has taken over our lives;
God’s faithful ways are eternal.
Hallelujah! ~ Psalm 119:2 (MSG)
God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won’t he freely give us everything else? ~ Romans 8:32 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God never stops being generous because he loves us so much.
PRAYER:
Hallelujah, Lord! I'm so thankful for your generosity -- especially the gift of your Son Christ Jesus. He gave up his life to die on a cross, so that we might have victory over sin and death. I take your generosity for granted. But when you bring it all to mind, which I trust that you will continue to do, it captures my thoughts and my imagination. I then want to join the psalmist in shouting "Praise the Lord!" 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)
