Ongoing blessings
The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany
Our Lord, I will sing
of your love forever.
Everyone yet to be born
will hear me praise
your faithfulness. ~ Psalm 89:1 (CEV)
We have received one ongoing blessing after another from the Son of God's ginormous tank of grace. ~ John 1:16 (ABP)
KEY IDEA:
Praise God without ceasing, for his blessings never cease.
PRAYER:
Kind Lord, I will never stop praising you because you just keep on pouring blessings out on me. I've been so incredibly blessed, yet I can be a grumpy complainer -- which makes no sense what-so-ever. Help me to break loose from this unhealthy pattern so that I can more fully give myself over to praising you forever. 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)
