Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 331
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Mercy Me singing … Beautiful … poignantly singing of how God sees the beauty in all He has chosen for Himself. … And also … THE LINK TO HEAR the popular song You Are So Beautiful, released by Joe Cocker in 1974.
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Highlight Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] …
10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
… Paul teaches the reality of how God sees us, . as HIs, … created for His eternal purposes …
Highlight Passage (Context): … Ephesians 2:1-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru the Apostle Paul, relates how the Lord sees Christians as His special creation.
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Reference Passage: … 1Samuel 16:7 [NLT] …
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
… God, thru the Prophet Samuel, declares how God sees and judges mankind.
Reference Passage: … Psalm 139:1-2, 23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David in song recognizes that God knows our hearts completely and perfectly and David prays for God to lead him in God’s everlasting ways..
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 15:3 [NLT] …
4 The LORD is watching everywhere, keeping His eye on both the evil and the good.
… Solomon declares that God see EVERYTHING in our hearts.
Reference Passage: … Romans 8:;29-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Pau, shows Christians that God knew us and chose us as born-again Christians to become like Christ.
Reference Passage… 1Peter 2:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter quotes from Isaiah showing that we Christians are a chosen people and The Lord will bring us out of our darkness into His light.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Cindy Hess Kasper… AT THIS LINK … tells how, as a young girl, the ODB author saw a father looking at his new baby, … all wrinkly and with a cone-shaped head; but the father, longingly looked on his new baby and was singing to her that old popular song, “You Are So Beautiful,” (see link to the song above)
And if my readers have taken in the first linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I’m praying we, who know Christ as our Lord, recognize that our God sees us - thru our salvation - as His beautiful children, created before time began for His purposes and His glory. To the Lord, we are His beautiful children.
And from that reality in God’s truth, … knowing how God sees us, … can I sense a glorious HALLELUJAH!! from you today?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … that You see me as Your masterpiece, created for Your glory.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to revel in the reality that we were created to be Your masterpiece, Lord. … 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.
1 comment:
Amen...so good!
Kjetil
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