Blessed
Christ the King Sunday
If you obey and do right,
a light will show you the way
and fill you with happiness. ~ Psalm 97:11 (CEV)
Happy are people who grieve, because they will be made glad. ~ Matthew 5:4 (CEB)
KEY THOUGHT:
God fills his obedient followers with deep joy.
PRAYER:
Lord God, thank you that your joy is available
to us even when there is so much grief in our lives -- perhaps even because of it. Forgive me for thinking that I need to get myself into a calm and drama-free spot before I can be blessed. Fill me with your blessings -- the joy of knowing that because of Jesus everything will turn out alright in the end. I'm going to face all the troubles with a new confidence. 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)
