Praise as purpose
Let my whole being bless the Lord! Let everything inside me bless his holy name! ~ Psalm 103:1 (CEB)
The whole crowd of disciples burst into enthusiastic praise over all the mighty works they had witnessed... ~ Luke 19:37 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
Our purpose in life is to join the choir of those praising God.
PRAYER:
Glorious God, thank you for giving me a significant purpose in life. Even though I like the idea of my purpose I am slow to let loose and burst into enthusiastic praise. Please give me a fresh glimpse of the incredilbe things that you are doing so that I can fully join the praise choir. I'm going to praise you with my soul -- the entirety of my being. 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)
