LOOKING BEYOND
Ash Wednesday
PSALM 65:5 (CEV)
You give hope to people
everywhere on earth,
even those across the sea.
1 JOHN 2:2 (CEV)
Christ is the sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world’s people.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Christ is the hope of the world.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for sending your Son Christ Jesus into the world to become the sacrifice that neutralizes our sin and its impact. Your vision is to be the hope of all people but I confess that my vision is to seek my own comfort. Instill within me a heart for the entire world. I'm going to start looking beyond. 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)
