Faithful and forgiving
I am aware of my wrongdoing, and I my sin continues to haunt me. ~ Psalm 51:3 (ABP)
If we own up to our sins and admit them, God will certainly forgive us of them. And on top of that, he will scrub the wrong from our lives. That's because God is totally faithful; it's who he is. ~ 1 John 1:9 (ABP)
KEY IDEA:
God is faithful and forgiving.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God! You know how bad I am -- how there are things that I think, say, and do -- things that I fail to do -- which are downright sinful. Yet, you are so faithful and so forgiving that I'm stunned. Help me to get past my sin and to dwell more on your faithfulness and forgiveness. Help me to clean up my act so that sin has no place in my life. I know that I can't do that on my own. I'm so glad, though, that I can count on you. Jesus proves that fact. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
