God's grace
The Second Sunday after Pentecost
O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love to those who love you and obey your commands. But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations. ~ Daniel 9:4-5 (NLT)
The Law stepped in to amplify the failure, but where sin increased, grace multiplied even more. ~ Romans 5:20 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
God's grace always outpaces our failures.
PRAYER:
O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! I am drawn to you by your love and grace. No matter how much I fail you seem to have even greater capacity to forgive. Forgive me for wallowing more in the frustration over my sinfulness than in your grace. Help me to learn how to wallow in your grace. I want my life to be about amplifying your grace. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
