CELEBRATE GOD'S MERCY
PSALM 74:21 (CEB)
Don’t let the oppressed live in shame. No, let the poor and needy praise your name!
LUKE 1:58 (CEB)
Elizabeth's neighbors and relatives celebrated with her because they had heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Celebrate God's mercy!
PRAYER
Gracious God, with you mercy is not a one-time event or exception. It is your way of being. While you are eager to save people from their shame, I confess that I'm too often indifferent to the pain of others. I'm way more concerned about the next exciting thing on my calendar. Rekindle your mercy in my life so that those around me might be renewed. Amen.
LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. 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)
