Thursday, January 14, 2021

THE GREATEST

PSALM 95:2-3 (CEV)
Come to worship him
     with thankful hearts
          and songs of praise.
The Lord is the greatest God,
     king over all other gods.


1 TIMOTHY 6:16 (CEV)
Only God lives forever!
And he lives in light
     that no one can come near.
No human has ever seen God
     or ever can see him.
God will be honored,
     and his power
          will last forever. Amen.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
God is the greatest -- so great that we'll never be able to comprehend him -- only honor him.

PRAYER
Glorious God, you are the greatest -- too great to comprehend. Yet, that doesn't stop me from trying. I keep thinking that if I could only wrap my mind around you that I might be able to control you. Forgive my presumptuousness. Show me a humbler way to relate to you. I'm going to focus my energy on pursuing ways to honor you rather than grok you. Amen.


DAILYTEXTS.ORG

*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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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