REAL-LIFE
PSALM 16:2 (NLT)
I said to the LORD , “You are my Master!
Every good thing I have comes from you.”
JOHN 17:3 9 (CEB)
This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
We're drawn into the real-life as we get to know God through Christ Jesus.
PRAYER
God, thank you for your generosity. I pause for just a moment to consider all the gifts you have given to us -- to me... Forgive me for not doing this enough. Reorient my life so that I'm living out of your generosity. Such a life is real and eternal. And I'm going to live a real-life because of what Christ has done and is doing. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
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)
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)
