OPEN EYES
PSALM 146:8 (NLT)
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.
EPHESIANS 1:18 (CEB)
I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call...
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God opens our eyes to his call.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for calling us to participate with you in your mission to renew the world. Start your next round of renewal with me because I'm short-sighted and tend to respond to only the things which give me immediate satisfaction. Show me how to set my will aside so that I'm focused on your will. I'm going to live according to your call. 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)
