Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 286
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Hillsong United singing … All For Love … poignantly leading worship and singing of how we, as Christians, must live to love others as Christ loved us.
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Highlight Passage: Leviticus 19:34 [ESV] ...
34 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
… God charges His people toward treating strangers with love and hospitality.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Leviticus 19:34-37 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Moses, gives His people instruction on how to love and treat strangers.
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Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:12 [ESV] …
12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. … “
… Jesus preaches His “golden rule” of the Prophets to others …
Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus’ “law of love” … to show love for one another, demonstrating that we are truly disciples of Christlikeness.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:14 [ESV] …
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
… The Apostle Paul repeats Jesus’ “law of love,” exhorting fellow Christians to love others as we would love ourselves.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye, AT THIS LINK uses a story the author relates of moving to a “foreign” country and being shunned in a church for sitting in a pew [see photo] which was “claimed” by a local member of the church the author, as a “stranger,” attended.
Perhaps other readers have experienced similar rejection, perhaps in a different way, when trying to break thru the feelings of “cliquish ownership” in new church. But is that the way God would have Christians act? Well, no, … of course not; … Jesus would certainly rebuke that kind of inhospitable behavior, wouldn’t He?
We are challenged and charged, in the OT as well as the NT (see Scriptures above), … even by Jesus Himself in His “golden rule” (Matt. 7:12) … to show His love by being hospitable and loving to ALL others, … yes, even so-called strangers. And I pray that we’ll be living out that “Law of Love” today as we encounter others in our very hostile world these days.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for showing us how to love others as You have loved us.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me to live out the “Law of Love,’ by receiving and loving others as our Lord has loved us. … Amen
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Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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