November 8, 2022 …Love Your Neighbors …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 312

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics fromDanny Gooey singing … Love God Love People … poignantly singing of how we we must love God to love others.  

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Highlight Passage: …  Leviticus 19:18  [ESV] …  

<i>   18 “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but <b>love your neighbor as yourself.</b> I am the Lord. </i> 

… God’s command on loving others as we would love ourselves.                                                     

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Leviticus 19:15-18 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Godthru Moses, instructs His people on how to live Godly lives.                                                

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Reference Passage: …  Matthew 7:12 [NLT] …  

12 “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets. 

… Jesus teaches His “golden rule” to His followers about treating others as we would would to be treated by others.

Reference Passage: …  Mark 12:28-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus teaches religious leaders on the most important of God’s commandments … that of loving others as we would love ourselves.  

 

Reference Passage: …  John 15;12 [NLT] …  

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.  

… Jesus commands His disciples (and us) that we must love one another as HE loved us. 

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches and exhorts fellow Christians to take on the attitude of Christ, which is to humbly help others before Himself.  

  

Reference Passage: …  James 2:8 [NLT] …  

8 Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 

… James charges follow Christians to obey the royal law of God to love our neighbors as our selves.  

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Eye … AT THIS LINK …  shared how Martin Luther King wrote from a Birmingham jail, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,” he said, “tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects us all indirectly.”

I would hope that all my m readers would would agree with Dr. King that we’re all interlocked with mutual wants and needs in this world  And God has shown us the way, thru following His Son, as our Lord and Savior, that by treating our neighbor - and even our enemy - as ourselves, and by showing them the love of Christ, we can live together in harmony and peace. 

I stop to pray today that each of us do all we can to do what Danny Gokey sings in the linked song …to love God and to love others today as our Lord loved us.                                          

My THANKFULNESS:... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for loving me so that I could love my neighbor.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to reach out with Your love for our neighbor, Lord, showing them Your grace today.   …  Amen

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