The wrap up
We may make a lot of plans,
but the Lord will do
what he has decided.
~ Proverbs 19:21 (CEB)
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. ~ 1 Peter 4:7-8 (MSG)
SUMMARY SENTENCEIn the end God gets his way, so go with it now.
PRAYERGod over the entire universe, I'm glad that you have a plan. How we're doing things -- and I include myself in that we -- isn't working out so well. Give us the humility to accept that yours is the plan that will prevail. Grant me a loving heart so that I'm in total harmony with what you're doing. I'm going to dedicate my life to serving as an operative of your coming kingdom. 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)
