David: "And just as I considered your life valuable today, may the Lord consider my life valuable, and may he deliver me from all trouble.”
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9 (NTFE)
For you know the grace of our Lord, Messiah Jesus: he was rich, but because of you he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Life is so valuable in God's economy that it is worthy of sacrifice.
DAILY FODDER
What makes human life so valuable?
PRAYER
Messiah Jesus, I'm grateful that you set aside your position of ultimate power to come live among us; and to sacrifice your life for us. Forgive our indifference to the lives around us. Sometimes we feel overloaded at the amount of suffering we have to process. Keep us close so that your life-giving compassion can flow through us. I'm trusting that you are looking out for me and so I am looking out for others. Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Give us enough food for today.
Forgive us our wrongdoing,
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
