January 2, 2023… Small Start -> Big Finish …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 2 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Rice singing  … How Great Thou Art … poignantly, yet powerfully, singing the greatness of our God and His creation, … especially when one considers how our Lord came so humbly to us as Heaven’s Child, another song so humbly sung by The Martins … AT THIS LINK …  

The Brooklyn Bridge - 8th Wonder of the World ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Micah 5:2 [NLT] …  

2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah.  Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf. 

… God’s prophesy, thru Micah, that God’s great ruler, The great Savior, Messiah, would come humbly from Bethlehem.                                                                             

Highlight Passage (Context): … Micah 5:2-4 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru the Prophet Micah, that thru humble beginnings in Bethlehem, God would bring the greatness of The Messiah to save God’s faithful.                                                             

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 28:1-8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s great promise, thru Moses, to protect and provide for His faithful remnant who are obedient to His word.

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 3:11 [NLT] … 

1 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end..  

… God’s promise, thru Solomon, that He, …The Lord, … will make everything right for all time.      

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 43:17-19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… remember God’s greatness in delivering God’s people from Egypt, promises a greater deliverance thru His Messiah.       

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:21-24 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Paul, charges God’s faithful to put on the new, Christlike, nature that He, The Lord, has planted in the hearts of  true, born-again, believers.    

Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:4-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru His Revelation to John, that God’s greatest work, thru Christ, would make all things new … FOREVER.    

                                                                             

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tom Felten … AT THIS LINK …   tells of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge (see photo), which, in the 19th century was considered the 8th wonder of the world, … where individual rocks and cables were assembled into the magnificent bridge crossing the Hudson river in New York.    

But no structure built by man can compare to the wondrous work done by our God, …Who humbly came in a manger in Bethlehem (hear the song, “Heaven’s Chid” above) to become the Savior God (hear “How Great Thou Art” above) Who saved mankind from our own sin.  

So, I’m praying - as we move into this New Year - that we can set aside our past baggage and our failings to look forward with the hope and greatness we have in our relationship with Christ… to become more - day-by-day - of what our Lord has created us to become.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for placing Your eternal greatness in all who believe on You as Lord and Savior.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to move forward, with Your Spirit, Lord, enabling us to be all You are building us to become.         Amen

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