SHINE
ISAIAH 51:4 (CEV)
The LORD says:
You are my people and nation!
So pay attention to me.
My teaching will cause justice
to shine like a light
for every nation.
1 JOHN 2:8 (CEV)
You can see the darkness fading away and the true light already shining.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
The light of Christ, manifest in our lives, is an assault on darkness.
PRAYER
Light of the world, shine in my darkness. Shine with your word and your teaching and your justice. Shine in me and through me, today. Make the darkness pass away. 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)
