SHINE!
PSALM 34:5 (CEV)
Keep your eyes on the LORD!
You will shine like the sun
and never blush with shame.
ROMANS 12:12 (CEV)
Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble and never stop praying.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Let your view of the Lord guide you through the rough times.
PRAYER
Lord God, you are the light of our lives -- not just when things are going right. You seem to shine the brightest during the darkest of times. I know that I'm prone to misstep and fall during dark times. I get anxious and do things that I eventually realize are not wise. Help me to fix my eyes on you rather than the dark around me. Because of you, I'm going to shine. 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 — 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)
