LET'S EAT!
JEREMIAH 31:17 (CEB)
There’s hope for your future, declares the LORD.
REVELATION 3:20 (ABP)
Hello! I’m standing out here knocking on your door. Open up and let me into your life. Imagine what it will be like sitting down together for dinner. O, the fellowship so divine!
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Fellowship with God is the hope of our future.
PRAYER
Gracious God, thank you for opening yourself to fellowship with people -- even people who are lukewarm to you. You've come to be with us. I confess that I'm not always quick to get to the door -- to respond to your presence. Forgive me for living a distracted life -- for looking other directions for hope and fellowship. Do come into my life right now -- stay forever. Let's eat! 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)
