Greatness
The whole earth will know
his true greatness... ~ Micah 5:4 (CEV)
For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. ~ Colossians 2:9-10 (NLT)
KEY THOUGHT:
Christ Jesus reveals the greatness of God to the world -- the greatness in which we participate through our connection with Christ.
PRAYER:
Lord God, thank you for sending Christ Jesus into the world to reveal how great you and your ways are. Forgive me for being so impressed by lesser expressions of greatness. Strengthen my connection with Christ so that through our union all the world will come to understand how honorable you are. I'm going to lose myself in your greatness. 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)
