December 6, 2022 … Waiting Patiently …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 340 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics of John Waller singing … While I’m Waiting … poignantly and powerfully singing about how we Christians must wait in humble obedience for the Lord’s return.  

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Highlight Passage: … Luke 2:38  [NKJV] …  

38 She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.  

… Anna, along with Simeon, had waited faithfully in the Temple for all their lives and finally were rewarded by seeing their Messiah.                                                                        

Highlight Passage (Context): … Luke 2:25-38 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Luke relates the story of Simeon and Anna who had waited patiently and faithfully all their lives for Messiah to deliver His chosen people from their oppression.                                             

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 27:14, 62:5 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…  King David calls on God’s faithful in song, including himself, to wait patiently on God.   

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…  Solomon shows that believers must humbly and patiently trust God …  ALWAYS …,  leaning not on our own human understanding.    

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 40:30-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Isaiah, promises to His faithful believers that He will give them (us) the strength to wait on Him.   

Reference Passage: … Titus 2:12-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Paul charges fellow Christians (and us) to live our lives in obedience to Christ, patiently awaiting His return when the glory of the Lord will be revealed to the faithful.            

Reference Passage: … 1John 3:2 [NLT] … 

2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as he really is. 

…  God’s promise, thru John, to His children (that’s us!) that one day, when the Lord returns, we will be like Him and see Him face-to-face.     

                                                                               

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Rayon … AT THIS LINK …   tells of a US Mail clerk at Christmas, trying to be positive, greeting an elderly woman by saying, ”Well hello, young lady,” … showing off that he actually valued youth over the woman’s age.              

We live in a youth oriented culture, don’t we?  But in reality, if you’ve taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, we see that God’s word - i.e., His truth - values those who wait patiently, perhaps all their lives like Simeon and Anna In the highlight passages, to see our Messiah face-to-face.  

Oh how I pray we’re all living our lives - day-by-day - in humble, yet faithful, expectation that our Lord may even return as we live for Him today.    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for the promise of Your return for Your Bride … maybe even today!!          

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to wait patiently for Your return, Lord.   …  Amen

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