Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Big Daddy Weave, singing … My Story … poignantly singing of how my story is of God’s redemption and renewal in my life … It’s His story in me!!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Ruth 4:13 [ESV] ... 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
… A simple story of love and marriage produces the line of our Savior.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Ruth 4:13-17 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God uses a simple love story to change the world forever.
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Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [ESV] … 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
… When we become His, all things in our lives are for His good and His glory.
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 5:17 [ESV] … 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
… The story of all true Christians is a story of redemption and renewal in Christ.
Reference Passage : …Ephesians 2:10 [ESV] … 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
… Each of us was created to become part of God’s plan … to use us for His glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Peter Chin, uses the biblical story of Ruth and Boaz to show that even a simple love story [see highlight passage] is part of God’s grand design to save His people from themselves. … The ODB author wrote: One of the few books of the Bible that doesn’t record God directly saying or doing anything, the book of Ruth could seem to be pretty ordinary. So some read it as a touching but largely human drama of two people coming together in a relationship.
If any reader here is born again in Christ, you and I have a story of incredible restoration, redemption, and renewal which was set in motion before time began for God’s glory [see Eph. 2:10] . The question is not whether we have a story, but rather whether that story is playing out for God’s glory or our own personal desires.
And I’m here, praying today that each and every one reading here desires to share a story, a testimony, with others of how all things in our lives are working together for our good and God’s glory. [see Rom. 8:28 and 2Cor. 5:17]
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for giving me a new life and being the “Star” of my story.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to look for opportunities to share our redemption story with others. … Amen
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