Trust him forward!
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Commit everything you do to the Lord.
Trust him, and he will help you. ~ Psalm 37:5 (NLT)
I am 100% certain of this -- God won't leave you hanging. He is going to finish what he started and on the day when Christ Jesus has the grand opening for his kingdom y'all will already be looking a lot like him -- so good! ~ Philippians 1:6 (ABP)
KEY IDEA:
Trust Christ to get you to where you need to be.
PRAYER:
Dear God, thank you for holding my hand along the way. I pull away sometimes because I'm immature and impulsive. Fortunately, I haven't hurt myself so much that I'm beyond repair. You still want to lead me and I still want you to lead me. My goal is to live from this day forward as a mature, convinced, and convincing follower of Christ Jesus 100% of the time -- even before the day of Christ. 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)
