PONDER
PSALM 119:148 (CEV)
I lie awake at night,
thinking of your promises.
LUKE 2:19 (CEV)
Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
The model believer ponders the words and activity of God.
PRAYER
God, one of the great privileges in my life has been to see you at work. There are things I can't explain otherwise. Yet, I still allow unhealthy thoughts to live in my head. Nudge them out so that I'm musing on you 24/7. Even when I'm unable to sleep I'm going to go back over in my mind your words and how I've seen them worked out. 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)
