The Lord is loyal
While he was in jail, the Lord was with Joseph and remained loyal to him. ~ Genesis 39:20b-21a (CEB)
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. ~ John 1:5 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord stays true to his people, even in the darkest of times.
PRAYER:
Lord, I'm so grateful that I know that I can count on you -- even when I get in trouble -- and even if the trouble is of my own doing. Help me to quit worrying that I am going to be overcome by the darkness I encounter. Help me to trust you more fully and to take healthy risks because I know that you are right in the middle of it all with me. Or maybe I should say that I am with you. For you are already there ahead of me working out solutions to my problems even before I know that they are problems. I'm going to relax knowing that you are super loyal. In Jesus' name I pray, 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.)