A SON GIVEN
ISAIAH 9:6 (CEV)
A child has been born for us.
We have been given a son
who will be our ruler.
2 PETER1:17 (CEV)
God, our great and wonderful Father, truly honored him by saying, “This is my own dear Son, and I am pleased with him.”
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God has given his Son to put things right.
PRAYER
Merciful God, as we approach our celebration of Good Friday and Easter we pause to thank you for sending your Son to us as the great sacrifice who makes things right. I acknowledge that I'm prone to focus on lesser matters. Use this holy week to redirect my attention to the gift that comes through your Son. I'm going to join you in honoring him. Amen.
*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)
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)
