Berry Patch Devotions in 2023</u> - Day 25
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Nicole Nordeman singing … Legacy … poignantly singing our how we Christians should leave a legacy of Christlikeness for future generations.
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Highlight Passage: … Proverbs 22:6 [NLT] …
<i> 6 Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.</i>
… Solomon gives wise advice to parents on raising their (our) children.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Proverbs 22:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Wise advice on raising our children … from God’s Spirit thru Solomon.
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Reference Passage: … Exodus 20:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Moses, commands His faithful to leave a legacy of Godly living for our children.
Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 6:5-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
…God’s command, thru Moses, to love the Lord with all our heart and bring up our children in the love of the Lord as well.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 6:4 [NLT] …
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
… Paul teaches fellow Christian parents to bring up their (our) children in disciple which comes from the Lord.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:9 [NLT] …
9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.
… Know that the Apostle Paul was living a Christ-like life, Paul exhorts fellow Christians to do the same.
Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 2:2 [NLT] …
2 You have heard me teach things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others.
… Paul charges Timothy and other fellow Christians to pass along the ways of Christlikeness which He had taught to them.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Alyson Kieda … AT THIS LINK … Shares from the 60s Andy Griffith TV show, where Andy was told to raise his boy, Opie, to make his own decisions. However, disagreeing, Andy said, “You can’t let a young’un decide for himself. He’ll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there’s a hook in it, it’s too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter that it’s hard to convince them that other things might be better in the long run.”
And that’s very BIBLICAL advice isn’t it, … especially if you believe in God’s word as shared above from Solomon, Moses, and the Apostle Paul to Old and New Testament believers. All of us have likely heard the old saying, “Like father, … like son;” haven’t we? Well, Andy Griffith certainly taught that to Opie, didn’t he? And that’s the kind of legacy Christians should be leaving for others as we model Christlikeness for others and especially for our children.
What kind of a legacy, as Nicole Nordeman sings in the linked song, will we be living for our children to follow and others to see today?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for modeling Your legacy for us thru Your word.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to model Your legacy of living for us so that we can pass it on to our “young-uns.” Amen
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1 comment:
Amen!
Kjetil!
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