ONE GOD
JEREMIAH 16:20 (MSG)
Can mortals manufacture gods?
1 JOHN 5:20 (NLT)
And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Even better than having innumerable fake-gods is living in fellowship with the one true God.
PRAYER
Glorious God, we pause to recognize that you are the one and only. Although, we do allow other things to function as "gods" in our lives. We're driven by more, newer, bigger, and better. We try to generate our own sense of security while you are there extending your steadying hand. It doesn't make sense. Forgive us and help us to accept the one hand which will steady us and lead us to places no substitute can take us. I'm going to aim to be a one God person. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 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)
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)
