Turn
Return to the one whom you have deeply betrayed! ~ Isaiah 51:6 (CEB)
Look! I’m standing at the door and knocking. ~ Revelation 3:20 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
Even though we have treated God wrong he is still eager to have a relationship with us.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are amazing. Even though we have betrayed you and sinned against you... Even though we have treated you wrong in all our thoughts, words, and deeds... You still want to be with us. Help me to turn more fully to you because up to this piont my responses to you have been half-hearted. I am eager to start enjoying your invitation for fellowship. 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)
