PARTNERSHIP
HAGGAI 2:4 (CEB)
"Be strong, all you people of the land," says the LORD. "Work, for I am with you..."
1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 (CEB)
We are God’s coworkers...
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God has given us partnership in his work.
PRAYER
Lord God, we are so blessed that you have included us as partners in your work of restoring creation. Forgive me for thinking that I have to solve all of these problems on my own or that what I do is worthless. Help me to see how I fit in and to trust you to make sense of all that is happening around me. I'm going to work with you -- and that is a blessing. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
