Messengers of peace
Think about how beautiful it will be to look up onto the mountainside and to see messengers with good news running our way -- messengers shouting out "Peace! God is still on the throne. He has saved us!" ~ Isaiah 52:7 (ABP)
And whenever you do enter a house, first say, "Peace be on this house." ~ Luke 10:5 (ABP)
KEY IDEA:
Live out your assignment as messengers of God-originated peace.
PRAYER:
Lord, you have called us to serve as messengers of your peace. What a beautiful assignment! Yet, I allow anxiety and fear to root themselves in my life. I need a peace refresher from the Prince of Peace. Send the messenger my way. Fill me with a new awareness of your sovereignty. I'm going to put on my running shoes. 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 — 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)
