LIVING WORD
PSALM 119:52 (NLT)
I meditate on your age-old regulations;
O LORD, they comfort me.
1 JOHN 1:2 (MSG)
The Word of Life appeared right before our eyes; we saw it happen! And now we’re telling you in most sober prose that what we witnessed was, incredibly, this: The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Jesus is the living breathing embodiment of all that God expects of us.
PRAYER
Living Word, we're grateful that you have come to not only save us from sin but to show us how to live. Your message is clear but I'm guilty of complicating it -- trying to accommodate it to the way the world currently works. Help me to fall more deeply in love with the complete message of Christ so that I, too, can be a faithful witness. I'm going to declare your word through my life. 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)
