The water
All of you who are thirsty, come to the water! ~ Isaiah 55:1 (CEB)
Jesus: Whoever drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. ~ John 4:14 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God is in the business of quenching our thirst -- physical and spiritual.
PRAYER
Generous God, thank you for the provisions which sustain me as a person. Forgive me for trying to quench my thirst in inappropriate soda pop ways -- ways which are pleasurable but only marginally effective for my long term health. Lead me to the water. Fill me with more of Jesus so that as a forgiven person I can share water with the thirsty. 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)
