Friday, October 23, 2020

LASTING

ISAIAH 55:3 (MSG)
I’m making a lasting covenant commitment with you, the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love.

HEBREWS 13:20-21 (MSG)
May God, who puts all things together,
     makes all things whole,
Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus,
      the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant,
Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd,
      up and alive from the dead,
Now put you together, provide you
      with everything you need to please him,
Make us into what gives him most pleasure,
      by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
What God does has a lasting quality to it.

PRAYER
Lord God, today I am so pleased that you keep your word. It lasts without expiration -- forever. I confess that so much of what I put my energy into is for short-term pleasure and satisfaction. Yet, you call us to live eternal lives. Realign my focus so that the eternal seeps into every aspect of my life. I'm going to live for your pleasure and satisfaction. Amen.
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DAILY TEXTS

The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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