ALIVE OR DEAD
PSALM 22:10 (NLT)
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
ROMANS 14:8 (CEV)
Alive or dead, we still belong to the Lord.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Alive or dead, we still belong to the Lord.
PRAYER
Glorious God of life, you have created us to live in a relationship with you. And that's my desire for my life and the lives of all those around me. Yet, in spite of my healthy desire, I am easily distracted by other, less alive gods. I'm easily sucked into living for fleeting experiences and promises of future security. Show me again the richness of belonging to you 24/7. Blind me to the distractions and open my eyes to eternal life. No matter what happens I'm going to find myself in you. 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)
