Peace agenda
In the future... the Lord will settle arguments
between nations.
They will pound their swords
and their spears
into rakes and shovels;
they will never make war
or attack one another. ~ Isaiah 2:2a,4 (CEV)
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” ~ John 20:21 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord welcomes us all with peace and sends us to share his peace with the people of all nations.
PRAYER:
Lord, you are the ultimate peacenik. You embody peace and call us to pass it to all others. I confess, though, that I'm such a pragmatist that I fail to act on your peace mandate because I can't see how it will work. Give me the faith to be able to act now on your radical future. I am going to embrace your peace agenda now. 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)
