EMBRACE TRUTH
Embrace truth! Love peace! ~ Zechariah 8:19 (MSG)
Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you. ~ John 8:32 (MSG)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Embrace truth if you want to experience true freedom.
PRAYER
Jesus, you are the way, the truth, and the life. Thank you for revealing what is real to a world that lurks in shadows. Yet, I'm satisfied to merely dabble in truth -- to learn some Bible facts and pontificate on truth without allowing it to fully permeate my life. Forgive my partial commitment to you and your agenda of truth. Refocus my soul -- my eyes, my heart, my spirit, and my mind so that I'm pursuing your truth. I'm going to honestly celebrate the freedom that I have 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 — 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)
