Recognize Christ
David found strength in the Lord his God. ~ 1 Samuel 30:6
Every time your name comes up in my prayers, I say, “Oh, thank you, God!”... And I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it. ~ Philemon 1:4,6 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
We hope that people will recognize that Christ is behind all we do and are.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for supporting me through hard times. Forgive me for taking credit for what you have done. Save me from the tendency to find strength in lesser sources. I am going to live so that my life points to Christ, the supreme 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)
