GOD GUIDES
ISAIAH 29:24 (MSG)
Those who got off-track will get back on-track,
and complainers and whiners will learn gratitude.
JAMES 1:5 (NTE)
If any one of you falls short in wisdom, they should ask God for it, and it will be given them. God, after all, gives generously and ungrudgingly to all people.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God will gently guide all who ask for guidance.
PRAYER
Generous God, thank you for sharing wisdom with all who ask. I confess that I am so busy doing my thing that I forget to ask. I'm not as open to guidance as I pretend to be. So I am asking you to intervene -- to guide my life -- fill me with your wisdom. I'm going to keep asking, in Jesus' name. 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)
