Room for all
MAUNDY THURSDAY
All lives are mine... ~ Ezekiel 18:4 (CEB)
There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. ~ John 14:2 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is responsible for all people -- and has made room in his presence for all.
PRAYER:
Gracious God, no one slips through the cracks because you have a place for everyone. Of course, some of us -- including me at times -- pushback against the way you do things. We're rebellious and would rather have homes where we're totally in control. It's not always that we don't like how you do things but that we'd like to be in charge ourselves. Don't give up on us. Don't let me slip away just because I'm stupid. I going to try to allow you much more access to my life so that I can experience the new life in Christ. 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)
