Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with song and lyrics from the Gordon Mote singing his song … Wake Up Dancing … poignantly singing of the reality and joy of our faith and hope to be with Jesus in glory.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Mark 10:15 [NLT] … 15 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
… Jesus on the faith it takes to end up with Him in heaven.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Mark 10:13-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus demands that His disciples have a childlike faith. [See also Matt. 19:13-14]
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Reference Passage : … Matthew 18:3 [NLT] … 3 Then He said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.
… Jesus makes it clear the faith it takes to be heaven bound by pointing to the faith of a child.
Reference Passage : … Luke 9:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus tells His followers how they must deny their own selfish cares and have enough faith to follow Him just as the children did in His day.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Alyson Kieda, used a story of childlike faith to illustrate the faith we need to be with Jesus in His kingdom. The ODB author wrote: The little girl moved joyfully and gracefully to the music of praise. She was the only one in the aisle but that didn’t keep her from spinning and waving her arms and lifting her feet to the music. Her mother, a smile on her lips, didn’t try to stop her.
My heart lifted as I watched, and I longed to join her—but didn’t. I’d long ago lost the unselfconscious expression of joy and wonder of my childhood. Even though we are meant to grow and mature and put childish ways behind us, we were never meant to lose the joy and wonder, especially in our relationship with God.
How often do we let the cares of this world or our personal pain get in the way of our faith? I love the story in today’s linked song, where Gordon Mote sings of a young child hearing his dying grandfather telling the young boy not to worry when granddad is gone because the old man will be dancing forever with Jesus.
Well, … in my old age I’m coming closer to that kind of faith, which really is the faith Jesus called on His followers to have … the faith of a little child (see photo). And when we have that kind of faith in following our Lord, … the faith to follow Him no matter what, we will one day, as the song sings, dance with Jesus in heaven.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for calling us like a father would call his little child.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Lord, … I so want to dance with You in glory. … Amen
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