God responds
You have been a place of safety
for the poor and needy
in times of trouble.
Brutal enemies pounded us
like a heavy rain
or the heat of the sun at noon,
but you were our shelter.
~ Isaiah 25:4 (CEV)
These are the words of the one who is the first and the last, who died and came back to life: I know your hardship and poverty... Revelation 2:8-9 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God understands and responds to our hardships.
PRAYER
Gracious God, you understand what I'm going through. Help me to trust you with my problems. I'm so eager to get everything fixed that I get ahead of you and start doing things my own way. But I know that you have experienced it all. Through Christ Jesus, you have defeated death itself. So I know that you are on task to defeat the vestiges of evil that I'm facing. 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)
