God's secrets
You’ve heard and seen all this—
won’t you admit it?
From now on I’ll tell you new things,
guarded secrets that you don’t know. ~ Isaiah 48:6 (CEB)
By what Christ has done, God has shown us his own mysterious ways. ~ Ephesians 1:9 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Through what Christ has done and does, God reveals his most guarded secrets.
PRAYER:
Resurrected Christ, you are the one who most clearly reveals who God is and what he is doing. Everything that came before you was good and powerful but through you things come into even greater focus. Help me to stay focused because I tend to drift. I need you every second of every hour, for you hold everything together for me. With your permission I'm going to share your wonderul secrets with whoever will listen. 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)
