COMING JUSTICE
ISAIAH 26:8 (ABP)
GOD, we're patiently plodding along the path defined by your justice -- trusting that you will live up to your reputation and show up to set things right.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:10 (CEB)
We all must appear before Christ in court...
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Live now according to God's upcoming justice.
PRAYER
God, I'm grateful for your promise of justice to come. I'm hopeful that you'll look at me with kindness on that day because my life hasn't been perfect. You'll have plenty of reasons to throw the book at me. But I'm trusting that through Christ your mercy will prevail. 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)
