March 30, 2023… God’s Warning Signs …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 89 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Don Moen singing … Trust and Obey … poignantly singing of how we Christians should do all we can to trust and obey God’s word in order to follow God’s will for our lives. 

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 7:19 [NLT] … 

19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 

…Paul showed fellow Christians how difficult it was for even a mature Christian, like himself, to avoid the pull of our sinful nature.                         

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Romans 7:15-20 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul gives witness to fellow Cristians of his won difficulty in following God’s way and avoiding sin in our lives.                     .                     

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:9-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David shows his surrender to follow God’s word in order to avoid his own sinful nature.

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

… God call, thru Solomon, to seek and trust and follow God’s ways, avoiding doing life our own way.        

Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [NLT] … 

23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me. 

… Jesus teaches that His disciples are to deny our own sinful ways a surrender our will to follow His   

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches Timothy (and us) that Christians can - and MUST - use God’s word to avoid the dangers of our sin nature.  

Reference Passage: … James 4:17 [NLT] … 

17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. 

… James teaches fellow Christians that they (we), knowing God’s way, thru His word, must use God’s warnings to follow God’s will.   

                                                                                                                

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Cindy Hess Kasper… AT THIS LINK …   tells of ignoring warning signs (see photo) posted by an old WW2 tank in their town park, and the ODB author and her friends playing on the old tank in spite of the warning signs.    

And isn’t that the way we al can be in our own sinful nature at times, … even as Christians committed to following God’s warnings, thru His word. Yes, even a mature Christian like the Apostle Paul (see the highlight passage), admitted to a personal battle with his own sin nature.

But battle we must, … using God’s word as our warning signs and seeking to do all we can to choose to follow God’s way in life and to avoid relenting to our own sinful ways.                                                      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me, thru Your word, how to follow Your warning signs for my life.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to follow Your warning signs for our life, Lord.      …  Amen               . 

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