STEADY
PSALM 94:18 (CEV)
Whenever I feel my foot slipping,
your faithful love steadies me, LORD.
LUKE 22:32 (CEV)
Jesus said to Peter, "I have prayed for you that your faith won’t fail."
SUMMARY SENTENCE
In an unstable world, we can count on God to steady us.
PRAYER
You, God, are the sherpa who keeps us from collective collapse under the weight of our own stupidity. Thank you. Forgive me for crawling into my tent to escape the world. Help me to see the value of having you as the walking stick who steadies me over the rough terrain. I'm going to step forward confident of your stabilizing presence. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 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)
