Turn to God
You have rejected me, but when you’re in trouble, you cry to me for help. ~ Jeremiah 2:27b (CEV)
Don’t you know that the reason God is good to you is because he wants you to turn to him? ~ Romans 2:4b (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Those who recognize God's overwhelming kindness turn to him instead of turning their backs on him.
PRAYER:
Kind and gracious God, you patiently pour out your kindness on undeserving people like me. Yet so often we turn elsewhere to find significance and to deal with the problems that come our way. Could it be that I am covering my eyes so that I don't really see how gracious you are? I need to have a fresh encounter with your grace so that my eyes are more fully opened and I can more completely turn to you. I need to see Jesus. 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)
