GOOD WORD
PSALM 119:162 (MSG)
I’m ecstatic over what you say,
like one who strikes it rich.
JOHN 6:68 (MSG)
Master, to whom would we go? You have the words of real life, eternal life.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's messages to us are real treasurers.
PRAYER
Glorious God, I'm grateful that you reveal yourself and your ways to us. I confess that at times I allow your message to get lost in the static of life. I'm too content to live in a world where the only messages that I naturally allow in are echoes of my own thoughts. So I would ask that you once again break through and put your active word in my head -- my heart. I'm going to start living the real life as defined by your word -- right now. 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)
