LEFT-OVERS
LEVITICUS 26:5 (CEV)
Your harvest of grain and grapes will be so abundant, that you won’t know what to do with it all. You will eat and be satisfied, and you will live in safety.
MATTHEW 14:20
Everyone ate until they were full, and they filled twelve baskets with the leftovers.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Our God is the God of left-overs.
PRAYER
Generous God, your abundance is greater than our need. Forgive me for approaching you as though you are a miser. Help me to recognize the abundance given to us and to be satisfied. I'm going to share the left-overs in my basket. 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)
