PERSEVERANCE
ISAIAH 53:1 (MSG)
Who believes what we’ve heard and seen?
Who would have thought GOD's saving power would look like this?
1 TIMOTHY 6:12 (CEB)
Compete in the good fight of faith. Grab hold of eternal life—you were called to it, and you made a good confession of it in the presence of many witnesses.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Complete your faith through perseverance.
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for allowing us to press on to greater faith. I admit that a lot of the time I feel stuck -- that my spiritual disciplines and my devotional activity isn't really moving me forward. Grant me the stamina to stay in the competition even when I don't see the progress. I suppose that perseverance is the progress you desire. I'm not going to let my frustrations with myself knock me out of the race. 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)
