FELLOWSHIP
LEVITICUS 26:12 (CEB)
I will walk around among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.
1 JOHN 1:3-4 (CEB)
Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing these things so that our joy can be complete.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God wants to have fellowship with us and our lives are most complete when we live in that fellowship.
PRAYER
I am so grateful, God, that you seek out fellowship with us. I confess that sometimes I go for walks without you. It's not that I'm intentionally ignoring you but I get so caught up in things that I forget my priorities. Remind me of your presence and the joy that comes when walking with you. 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)
