Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in Images, song and lyrics from Jason Gray singing, With Every Act of Love … powerfully singing of how we come together in the body of Christ to work together with “every act of love” to help one another.
Canadian Geese in "V Formation"
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Highlight Verse[s]: Ecclesiastes 4:12 [NLT] ... 12 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
… God, thru Solomon, show His people that there is so much more power when we work together to help one another.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Solomon exhorts fellow believers to work together in life.
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Reference Passage : … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus commands us, as His disciples, to show love for one another, … showing the world that we are truly His disciples.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 12:20-22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, shows that His body, the church, was created with many individual parts to work together to function in Christlikeness.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 2:3-4 [NLT] … 3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to look out for the interest of other Christians.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 10:24-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God brought us TOGETHER as the body of Christ to work TOGETHER as His Body.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Adam R Holz, uses a story about geese flying in V formation to illustrate how “birds of a feather” fly together, just as we Christians should. … The ODB author wrote: Why is there a football in the parking lot? I wondered. But as I got closer, I realized the greyish lump wasn’t a football: it was a goose—the saddest Canada goose I’d ever seen.
Geese often congregate on the lawn near my workplace in the spring and fall. But today there was only one, its neck arced back and its head tucked beneath a wing. Where are your buddies? I thought. Poor thing was all alone. It looked so lonely, I wanted to give it a hug. (Note: don’t try this.)
I’ve rarely seen a goose completely alone like my lonesome feathered friend. Geese are notably communal, flying in a V-formation to deflect the wind. [see photo] They’re made to be together.
There is so much evidence in nature that God designed various species to work together in community. Wolves hunting in packs, a pride of lions, and, as in the ODB piece, Canadian geese flying in that wondrous V formation provide that evidence. God meant like creatures to live and work together, … just a Jason Gray sings that every act of love we share with one another shows what the Apostle Paul wrote about and Jesus commanded His disciples to do [see reference passages above] … and that’s to live and love TOGETHER as His body, … encouraging and uplifting one another.
And I don’t think God could have illustrated that need any more powerfully than what we’re going thru right now, … forced into social distancing, … yet realizing that we must fly TOGETHER in the “V-formation” of God’s love to help one another in these trying times. “Lone Ranger” Christianity just doesn’t cut it, does it?
So, I pray we all are praying - TOGETHER - to have God show us the way to fly toward Him, in His “V-formation,” to show the world that His Body flies in unison thru the head winds of these troubled times.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for showing us thru your truth that it’s best to fly TOGETHER in Your “V-formation.”
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to fly TOGETHER in the close V-formation of Your Body, helping each other as much as we can, … even today. Amen
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