GOD'S KINDNESS
The Third Sunday in Eastertide
2 SAMUEL 7:18 (CEB)
Who am I, LORD God, and of what significance is my family that you have brought me this far?
1 CORINTHIANS 15:10 (CEV)
But God was kind! He made me what I am, and his wonderful kindness wasn’t wasted.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Everything we have and everything we are points to God's kindness.
PRAYER
Lord God, I'm nothing, yet you have given me everything. Forgive me for being slow to acknowledge your overwhelming kindness. Stir within me a passion to extend the grace-received to everyone with whom I come in contact. I'm going to celebrate and represent your kindness to the world. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
