WAIT FOR IT
PSALM 146:3, 5 (MSG)
Don’t put your life in the hands of experts
who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
Instead, get help from the God of Jacob,
put your hope in GOD and know real blessing!
LUKE 21:19 (MSG)
Staying with it—that’s what is required. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry; you’ll be saved.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's good things come to those who patiently wait for him.
PRAYER
Kind God, you are so patient. I confess that I'm not very good at either perseverance or patient. I'm easily distracted by every new thing that comes along. Settle me down so that I can wait things out, trusting in you and your plan. My hope is in you. 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)
