Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 64
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group King and Country singing … God Only Knows … poignantly and powerfully singing of how only God knows what’s in our hearts.
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Highlight Passage: … Jeremiah 12:3a [NLT] …
3a But as for me, LORD, You know my heart.
… Jeremiah recognizes that God knows his heart intimately.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Jeremiah 12:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s Prophet questions why the Lord allows the wicked to prosper when He knows the hearts of all mankind, including the Prophet, so well. .
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Reference Passage: …1Samuel 16:7 [NLT] …
7 … The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”…
… God shows Samuel that He judges people by the content of the heart as He did in selecting David to be anointed as King for Israel.
Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:1 [NLT] …
1 O LORD, You have examined my heart and know everything about me.
… King David sings of recognizing that God alone knows the depths of David’s heart.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Solomon shows that we can - and should - trust God as He lead us thru life, … not relying on our own understanding and perceptions.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 17:10 [NLT] …
10 But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine the secret motives,. I give all people their due awards, according to what their actions deserve.”
… God shows Jeremiah (and us) that He judges each person by the intent of their (our) hearts and the reality of their (our) actions.
Reference Passage: … Romans 8:27 [NLT] …
27 And the Father Who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
… Paul teaches truth that God knows and reshapes the hearts of all His chosen ones.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Winn Collier … AT THIS LINK … writes of the incredible detail of human anatomy that Michelangelo sculpted into His sculpture of Moses (see photo). Yet, tho we may see such detail in the outer man, only God, knows the intricacies of our hearts, as the Song and Scriptures above describe..
The question for all of us here today is whether we recognize that truth and realize that God gives us His heart … thru His word … to reshape our hearts to conform to His will. And that’s why you find me here each day, letting God’s word reshape my heart to seek after His ways rather than m own.
How about you, my friend? Are you willing to let our Lord reshape our hearts in His image today?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for reshaping my heart to look more like Yours today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to let You, Lord, reshape our hearts to look more like Yours today. … Amen
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Amen!-
Kjetil!-
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