NOTHING HIDDEN
ISAIAH 29:15 (CEV)
You are in for trouble,
if you try to hide your plans
from the LORD!
Or if you think what you do
in the dark can’t be seen.
EPHESIANS 5:13 (NTE)
Everything becomes visible when it’s exposed to the light...
SUMMARY SENTENCE
You can't hide anything from God; so why try?
PRAYER
Lord of light, from you nothing is hidden and nothing is kept secret. You know us inside and out, even understanding what we have yet to discover about ourselves. Lord, forgive us for trying to hide from you. Call us out of our darkness and draw us to the light of your grace. Amen. (Daily Texts, Ground Up Grace edition)
*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)
