Boldly
Don’t tremble with fear!
Didn’t I tell you long ago?
Didn’t you hear me?
I alone am God—
no one else is a mighty rock.
~ Isaiah 44:8 (CEV)
And you must announce from the housetops whatever I have whispered to you. ~ Matthew 10:27
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Be bold in sharing what God has said to us.
PRAYER
Lord, I delight in your Word -- your message of hope. But I am bashful when it comes to talking about it. I know that you want me to share the good news that you have given to us. But I also know that it sounds kind of crazy to people. And I'm not so eager to offer further explainations to a Facebook world where people have become experts at flaming everyone with whom they disagrees. Fill me with the confidence that flows from the hope of the gospel so that I can speak clearly and boldly. 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)
