GOD'S EXTRAVAGANT GENEROSITY
DEUTERONOMY 8:7 (NLT)
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills.
ROMANS 8:32 (MSG)
If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's provision for us is extravagant and sacrificial.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for your love and for lavishing such extravagant gifts on us. Forgive me for focusing on what I don't have and allowing that to form my understanding of you and the life you've given to me. Refocus my life so that I'm cognizant of your exorbitant gifts. I will never again think of you as a Scrooge. 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)
