Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 149
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kenny Loggins, singing … Highway to the Danger Zone … powerfully singing of how we, in our nature, often push our limits way past our own limits of safety.
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Highlight Passage: 2Samuel 11:1 [ESV] …
1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
… David put himself in real danger, … more danger on that balcony in the palace than out on the battlefield leading his men in battle.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Samuel 11:1-6, 12-15 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David put himself into a very human and tempting danger zone by being on that balcony in the palace instead of out leading God’s men in battle as he should have been in God’s safety zone.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:105 [ESV] …
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
… David sang of the right path - the safe path - to take in life is follow His light of truth and avoiding our own danger zones of selfish pursuit.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… We must ALWAYS trust doing life God’s way and avoid trying to do it on our own.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11 [ESV] …
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
… God has a plan for His people and we need to follow it !!
Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [ESV] …
23 And He said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
… Jesus to HIs followers on what it takes to follow our Lord - … to deny our own way and to diligently follow Him.
Reference Passage</u>: … John 14:15 [ESV] …
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. …
… If we Christians truly love the Lord, we’ll stay in line with His commandments.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Wittmer AT THIS LINK … uses a story about a mountain climber who made the peak at Mt Everest in 2019 but died of heart failure on the descent down the mountain. Apparently, since this has happened in the past, Doctors call the descent from Everest, the “death zone.”
And then the ODB author went on to compare that “death zone” to the “danger zone” that King David put himself into by being where he shouldn’t on that balcony (see photo) the evening he saw Bathsheba bathing. And we certainly know from the highlight passage that being in that “danger zone,” where he, as King, should’ve been out on the battle field, led David to create a “death zone,” ultimately having Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband killed.
I’ve heard it said that the safest place to be in life is in the center of God’s will;” and I believe it is in our sin nature to push the limits and pursue the “danger zones” of life as Kenny Loggins sings in the linked song. But Jesus wants us to deny that danger zone pursuit and follow His way, doesn’t He (see Scriptures above). So, I’m praying here-and-now that we follow God’s way and stay in His safety zone today.
Good battle plan, don’tcha think?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing us the way to go today … by the light of truth see Ps 119:105 and Prov 3:5-6.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to avoid the danger zones of our selfish pursuits and stay in the safety zone of God’s will. … Amen
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