Devotional Song: Go to this link … Please go this video link to hear Mark Harris singing Find Your Wings, reminding us that our Father God wants us to spread our wings and fly as His children.
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Highlight Passage – NKJV: 1st Thessalonians 2: 7: 11-12 [NKJV] …
7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. …
11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
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Highlight Passage [Context] – NKJV: 1st Thessalonians 2: 1-7; 11-12 [NKJV] … Go to this link … Spreading God's "TLC" as a loving parent ...
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Reference Passages #1 Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 [NKJV] …
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Reference Passages #2 2nd Timothy 2: 24-25 [NKJV] …
24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, …
Reference Passages #3 Hebrews 10: 24 [NKJV] …
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, …
Reference Passages #4 1st Peter 2: 2 [NKJV] …
2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, …
My Journal for Today: From today’s Our Daily Bread life lesson, the focus was on the imagery the Apostle Paul used when he was trying to teach new Christians in Thessalonica how to treat others. And in his life-lessons, Paul used the word picture of loving parents (see the highlight passage above), who showered their children with “TLC,” much as you can imagine from the attached photo.
Perhaps, as a reader here, you are a parent; maybe not; but you were once a child and I pray that you had loving parents, who were there for you, taught you, affirmed you; and raised you, as Mark Harris sings about in the linked song, … to spread your wings and fly, living out the truth of God in your life. God gave His children the instructions (see Deut. 6: 6-7 above) to teach His word to their children so that they could do what Mark Harris sings about … to live as under the loving care of a loving Father.
Perhaps you were not raised by loving/caring/protecting parents; and if not so, you know how the wounds of parental abuse live in your heart and become so difficult to overcome in later life. No, … God’s word is clear (read the passages above). God wants us to treat others as He has treated us with the love of an eternal parent who protects His young, suckles us with His word, and helps us grow to fly free and spread His love to others.
I pray that we go out, TODAY, … as God’s word charges in the passages above; and share God’s “TLC” with others.
My Prayer for Today … Lord, use me today to spread Your love to others. … Amen
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