March 3, 2023 … God’s Love - The Real Deal …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 62 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Mercy Me singing  the old hymn… he Love of God … poignantly singing of how we Christians can always depend on the love of God expressed thru His Son, Jesus, who gave His all on the cross to express God’s love for His chosen children. 

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] … 

8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners..    

…  Even for us, as lost sinners, God, the Father was willing to send His son to die that we might live eternally.      

Highlight Passage (Context): … Romans 5:6-8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…  The Apostle Paul shows the extent of God’s love to save God’s chosen people from their (our) sins.                   

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Reference Passage: …  Zephaniah 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru the Prophet Zephaniah, that God’s love will one day restore God’s people to all the Lord has promised them.                    .         

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

… Solomon shows that we can trust God’s love to lead us into Glory as His beloved chosen family.   

Reference Passage: …  John 3:16 [NLT] … 

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.   

… Jesus teaches Nicodemus (and us) the reality and truth of God’s love.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians about the reality of God’s love being infinite and complete.        

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

1 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! 

… God, thru John, shows us that His love extends to us as a Father does to love His child.  .                                                                                                            

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Huang … AT THIS LINK … tells of how difficult it was for a young woman to believe and trust in God’s love because of a past fiancée who had betrayed her with infidelity.     

But it’s only when any of us, who know - and trust - the love of God who can give witness to the extent and boundless truth of God, Who even gave of His Son to die to show His chosen children the extent of His life.  

And oh how I pray all reading here have felt, and now trust infinitely and completely in our God’s love as the group Mercy Me sings in the linked song and God’s truth above attests.  My fellow Christian, God’s love is the REAL DEAL.                                      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your love, expressed to me daily in my relationship with Your Son, my Lord, and Savior.                       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to show others of the extent of God’s love for us..   … Amen                 

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