God sends
My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness. ~ Psalm 57:3 (NLT)
God sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We saw his Son and are now telling others about him. ~ 1 John 4:14 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God, forever loving and trustworthy, sent Jesus to save us.
PRAYER:
Loving and true God, thank you for the gift of salvation which has come to us through your Son Jesus. I want to be free to tell others about what he has done. But it all sounds wild and crazy to many people so I'm a bit reluctant. I'm worried that people will not take me seriously. Free me from this preoccupation with what people might think so that others will meet Jesus through me. 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)
