Amazing activity
We thank you, God, we thank you— your Name is our favorite word; your mighty works are all we talk about. ~ Psalm 75:1 (MSG)
You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. ~ 1 Peter 2:9b (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
God is full of wonderful activity.
PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, thank you for calling us to be your people. It really is an honor to be associated with you because you are so full of amazing deeds. Your name needs to be the center of every conversation. But I like to talk about myself too much. Help me to shift the focus from me to you. For it is only in you that the most of amazing things happen -- that we are moved from enduring darkness to living in light. I'm going to look for ways to talk about what you do. 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 — my own 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)
