Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 246
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Ken Janzen singing … Rooted and Grounded In Love … poignantly singing of how we Christians are ALWAYS undergirded and grounded by God’s love.
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Highlight Passage: … Ruth 2:12 [NLT] …
12 May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully for what you have done.”
… Boaz, expresses a prayer for Ruth to take refuge under the care of God.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Ruth 2:5-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Boaz, impressed by Ruth’s devotion to Naomi, reaches out to help and care for Ruth, … blessing her to receive God’s love and watch-care.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 36:5 [NLT] …
5 Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
… David sings of the extent of God’s love for His chosen people.
Reference Passage: … John 15:13 [NLT] …
13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
… Jesus expresses the extent of His love for His disciples, which they could not fully grasp until later, after He had died on the cross and was resurrected.
Reference Passage: …Romans 8:35-38 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians [us too] the truth that NOTHING can - or ever will - separate born-again Christians from God’s love.
Reference Passage: …1Corinthians 13:4-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians about the essence and extent of God’s love extended to those who believe in and follow the Lord, showing that God’s love should be extended to others.
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
1 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
… God, thru John, shows us that all who know Him as our Heavenly Father have His love.
My Devotional Journal:</b> Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon … AT THIS LINK … related a story about patients and families in a cancer-care center who bonded quickly with one another because of their mutual empathy for one another’s situation, … illustrative of God’s love when Christians can share the love of God with one another.
And the ODB author also used the OT story of Boaz reaching out with God’s love to Ruth (see highlight passage), whom Boaz recognized was reaching out with God’s love to help her mother-in-law Naomi.
And I’m stopping to pray, as I write these words, influenced by the linked song and the Scriptures above, … that all reading here with me have experienced God’s love in our lives and that we are committed, as Boaz was for Ruth, to share God’s love with others … yes, maybe even TODAY!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your love, Lord, which roots and grounds me <b>(see photo)</b> in an eternal relationship with You.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to ground ourselves in Your love, Lord, so that we can reach out to share Your love with others. … Amen
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