CREATING AND SUSTAINING
The First Sunday in Lent
PSALM 102:25 (CEB)
You laid the earth’s foundations long ago;
the skies are your handiwork.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:8 (CEB)
He will also confirm your testimony about Christ until the end so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God is at work creating and sustaining.
PRAYER
Creator God, in spite of the fact that we are prone to tear things apart, you continue to hold things together. Reassure me of your sustaining involvement when I start to feel frustrated by my own failures and those of the world around me. I can see that it is all about you. 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)
