Gates
Christmas Eve
Open the ancient gates,
so that the glorious king
may come in. ~ Psalm 24:7 (CEV)
“Here’s the man.” ~ John 19:5 (CEB)
KEY THOUGHT:
Open your life to Jesus the glorious king as he comes!
PRAYER:
Thank you for coming, Jesus! Help me to open the gates of my life more than a crack. I can't open them wide enough on my own to welcome you in the way you should be welcomed. I'm just going to start pulling on the gates and trust that you're pushing. 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)
