Justice
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who practice his justice;
seek righteousness;
seek humility. ~ Zephaniah 2:3 (CEB)
God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied. ~ Matthew 5:6 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
God blesses those who pursue justice.
PRAYER:
Jesus, thank you for dying to establish a justice by which we can live forever. Forgive me for seeing justice as a secondary issue without eternal value. Give me the wisdom to pursue the kind of justice which characterizes your kingdom. I'm going to pursue justice for those who are weak and vulnerable that eventually, all people might recognize the justice of the cross. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
