Refreshment
You are my God. I worship you.
In my heart, I long for you,
as I would long for a stream
in a scorching desert.
~ Psalm 63:1 (CEV)
Jesus stood up and shouted,
"All who are thirsty should come to me!"
~ John 7:37 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Jesus is the source of life-giving refreshment.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for refreshing us when we get worn down and parched. I confess that I contribute to my own depletion. I've opted in to a world system that pushes us into wanting more and fearing that we're going to miss out on some experience. Reset my desires so that I'm looking only to you for fulfillment. I'm going to find refreshment and satisfaction in you. 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)
