Peace
HOLY WEEK
Your enemies will stay far away.
You will live in peace,
and terror will not come near. ~ Isaiah 54:14 (NLT)
I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn’t like the peace that this world can give. So don’t be worried or afraid. ~ John 14:27 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Jesus is giving us his peace so we don't have to be afraid.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for sharing your peace with us. You continue to extend it to us -- even when we prefer to figure things out on our own and live with the fear of all that. It does not make sense that we are so easily caught up in the fear of our times. Intervene and step me through the process of embracing your peace. I'm not going to entertain fear any longer. 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)
