ADVOCATE
EXODUS 32:11-12 (CEB)
But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God... "Calm down your fierce anger. Change your mind about doing terrible things to your own people."
1 JOHN 2:1 (CEB)
If you do sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
We are not without an advocate.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for listening -- and not only that, you provide advocates to speak on our behalf. We're so messed up that we can't even make a case for ourselves. But you take care of that because you love us. Help me to give up my worry -- along with my sinful ways. I'm going to trust you. 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)
