Incredible God
I am the Lord, the God of all living things! Is anything too hard for me? ~ Jeremiah 32:27 (CEB)
Paul wrote: All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ... All our praise is focused through Jesus on this incomparably wise God! Yes! ~ Romans 16:25,27 (MSG)
KEY THOUGHT:
God has no peer.
PRAYER:
Glorious and wise God, I have nothing to say that you don't already know. Thank you for inviting me into your conversation anyway. Forgive me for acting as though you don't really understand and as though you need someone to school you on reality. Reframe my approach to reality so that it is totally Jesus-centered. Jesus is going to be the focal point of my world and my praise. 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)
