Holy urgency
Easter Monday
Jacob went on his way, and God’s messengers approached him. ~ Genesis 32:1 (CEB)
The angel said to the women, "Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.'" ~ Matthew 28:5a,7 (NRSV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE:
When God sends us on an assignment it is time to get moving.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for the new life that Christ Jesus secured for us through the resurrection. He left the Heavenly Fellowship to make it happen. I confess that even though I find this to be good news I am sluggish in my response. I know that I should move outside my comfort zone to share the news but I keep finding excuses to sit in my chair. Use your Spirit to foster a sense of holy urgency so that I can complete my assignment. I'm no longer going to be a procrastinator. 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)
