God can be trusted
Don’t forget that you promised
to rescue us. ~ Jeremiah 14:21b (CEV)
God can be trusted, and he chose you to be partners with his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ 1 Corinthians 1:9 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE:
God can be trusted.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for trusting us to be partners in the work that Christ Jesus is doing. I confess that I have trust issues. I've been burned too many times -- and I've failed to be totally trustworthy myself. That makes your trust even more significant. Help me to become a trustworthy partner. I am going to trust you to make it so. 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 — my own 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)
