Waiting with faith
I will wait for the Lord to help us,
the Lord who is ashamed of the family of Israel.
I will wait for him. ~ Isaiah 8:17 (NCV)
So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not by seeing. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:6-7 (NLT)
KEY THOUGHT:
We live our lives in a way which reflects our faith that God wants to be with us.
PRAYER:
Gracious God, thank you for making a way for us to be with you. You do this even though people like me are content to deal with life on our own. As I veer off the way keep nudging me back onto the pathway of faith. Even though I can't see very far ahead I am going to trust you, Lord, to bring me home to you. 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 -- 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)
