Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 79
<b></u>Devotional Song</u>: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> … Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from two groups, Elevation Worship and Maverick City leading in worship and singing … I Shall Not Want … poignantly and powerfully singing of how Christians need not want for anything because of our God providing all our needs even thru the darkness of the shadow of death.
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Highlight Passage… Psalm 131:2 [NLT] …
17 Instead, I have calmed and quoted myself, like a weaned chid who no longer cries for its mother’s milk. …
…King David teaches in song how to seek contentment from our God.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Psalms 131 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of avoiding pride by resting like a child being weaned by his/her mothers.
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Reference Passage: … Psalms 37:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings how believers can be contented by taking delight in the providence of God.
Reference Passage: … Luke 12:15 [NLT] …
15 Then He said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”
… Jesus teaches His followers that they (we) must avoid selfishness and greed to find contentment in this life.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:11-13, 19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that our only real contentment comes from pursuing a relationship with Christ and God’s provision of our needs. .
Reference Passage… 1Timothy 6:6-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul shows Timothy (and us) to seek only Christ and avoid seeking after worldly wealth or power.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13;5 [NLT] …
5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said: “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”
… God’s word, thru the Author of Hebrews, quotes God’s promise, thru Moses to God’s people in Deut 31-:6, 8 that we don’t need to rely on worldly wealth for contentment because our God will never leave His people and will ALWAYS provide for their (our) needs.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey … AT THIS LINK … writes about a psychiatrist trying to help a reader of the doctor’s advice column who was discontented by her ambitious pursuits in life, telling the woman, ” We’re cursed to chase the “teasing and elusive butterfly” of contentment, he added, “not always to capture it.”
The Psychologist’s advice may be a human reality; but the reality and truth of of God’s advice - from His word found above - tells us that we born-again Christians will only find contentment by trusting in our Lord to provide for what we need in life rather that feeling the discontent of pridefully pursuing worldly wealth or power.
To my readers … let’s all take in the linked song and dwell in the meditation of God’s word above; and then let’s all go out the seek our contentment in our relationship with Christ, being led by the promises of His word.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing me with all I need in life, … now and forever more. .
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to rest in knowing that You, Lord, provide us with all our needs. … Amen .
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1 comment:
Amen...!
Kjetil!
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