COMPASSIONATE GOD
Palm Sunday
PSALM 3:8 (MSG)
Real help comes from GOD.
Your blessing clothes your people!
MATTHEW 9:35 (CEV)
Jesus went to every town and village. He taught in their meeting places and preached the good news about God’s kingdom. Jesus also healed every kind of disease and sickness.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's compassion flows through Jesus.
PRAYER
Gracious God, thank you for the gift of Jesus into the world -- into my life. Through him, your compassion is clearly revealed. I want to carry on with his work but I'm driven by my self-interests and they get in the way of seeing the hurt in the lives of others. Tame the self-focus and give me compassionate eyes so that I can see how to proclaim the good news and extend healing to whoever needs it. 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)
