GOD'S BIG DAY
JOEL 2:1 (NLT)
...the day of the LORD is upon us.
2 PETER 3:13 (NTE)
But we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which justice will be at home. That is what he has promised.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's big day is closer than we realize.
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for your promise of a coming day when justice and righteousness will prevail. Forgive me for getting overly discouraged by circumstances and forgetting about your promise. Help me to live now according to the promised future. I'm looking forward. Amen.
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)
