THE COMING RULE
ZECHARIAH 14:9 (CEV)
Then there will be only one LORD who rules as King and whose name is worshiped everywhere on earth.
REVELATION 22:3-4 (MSG)
Never again will anything be cursed. The Throne of God and of the Lamb is at the center. His servants will offer God service—worshiping, they’ll look on his face, their foreheads mirroring God.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Put your hope in God because eventually his rule will be recognized universally.
PRAYER
Glorious God, I rejoice that eventually your sovereign rule will be recognized across all borders. It's so easy to get discouraged and to lose hope when there is so much turmoil in the world. Help me to keep my focus ahead so that I reflect your glory onto the current chaos of the world. I'm going to live hopefully because I see what's happening now in light of what's coming. 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)
