LIFEGIVING
JEREMIAH 3:23 (MSG)
We’re back! Back to our true GOD,
the salvation of Israel.
MATTHEW 15:35-36 (CEV)
After Jesus had told the people to sit down, he took the seven loaves of bread and the fish and gave thanks. He then broke them and handed them to his disciples, who passed them around to the crowds.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Jesus is lifegiving.
PRAYER
Jesus, everything you offer me is life-giving and life-changing. Thank you! Forgive my choices and actions that seek fulfillment in anything or anyone but you. Though I fall short, you extend your hand and heart to lift me up and restore me to full life. Use me to restore and uplift someone today. Amen. (Daily Texts, Ground Up Grace edition)
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)
