GOD IS HERE
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
ISAIAH 55:6 (CEV)
Turn to the Lord!
He can still be found.
Call out to God! He is near.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 (CEB)
All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God has come close to us through Christ Jesus.
PRAYER
Thank you, Christ Jesus, for coming to us to reveal God in ways never before seen. You are God in the flesh. Forgive me for acting as though you are distant and uninvolved. It is easy to ignore disengaged deities. Open my eyes to your ongoing engagement in history and the wonder of your presence. I'm going to sit up and pay closer attention to what you're doing. 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)
