God's mery
What can I give back to the Lord
for all the good things he has done for me? ~ Psalm 116:12 (CEB)
But Jesus wouldn’t allow it. “Go home to your own people,” Jesus said, “and tell them what the Lord has done for you and how he has shown you mercy.” ~ Mark 5:19 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
How to honor the Lord? Go and tell.
PRAYER:
Lord, I am grateful for all the kindness that you have shown to me. I am especially thankful for the sacrifice of Jesus which secured new unending life for all who embrace it. The gifts from you continue on and on. But I am not very good at acknowledging those gifts in a natural and ordinary way. I get all nervous and I don't know why. So please help me to be able to tell people about what you have done for me. I want to see other people accept your mercy because they have heard about it from 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)
