Second chances
Count yourself lucky—
God holds nothing against you
and you’re holding nothing back from him. ~ Psalm 32:2 (MSG)
The past is forgotten, and everything is new. God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us... ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17b-18a (CEV)
KEY THOUGHT:
God gives second chances.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for your generosity as it comes to us through Christ Jesus. You are a lot more gracious than me. I have trouble extending grace to others and myself. Awaken within me a fresh sense of the new thing you are doing and draw me into it. Second chances are going to become second nature to me. 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)
