April 23, 2023… Sharing Christlike Love

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 113 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in song and lyrics  from Zach Williams singing … Less Like Me … powerfully, singing of how we Christians try to do more each day to show Christ’s love and be more like Him and less like ourselves.   

Loving Others like Jesus loves His disciples ... 

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Highlight Passage: … 1John 3:18 [NLT] … 

18 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. 

… John teaches fellow Christians on how we Christians must share the love of Christ with others by thinking and living like Him.            

Highlight Passage (Context): … 1John 3:11-18 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s word, thru John, teaches on sharing the love of Christ with others .                               ===============                                                                 .                                                                                                                         

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. 

… God’s ultimate and eternal show of love for mankind by giving His Son to save mankind from our sin.  

Reference Passage: …John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, after washing their feet to show His love for them (and us), commands His disciples to love others as He has shown His love for His disciples.

Reference Passage: …John 15:9-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows the essence of living to love others as He has loved us.  

Reference 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. 

… God, in the life of Christ, showed us Christians the essence of His love by being willing to die for us.     

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:37-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that for born-again Christians nothing can separate us from His love as long as we live to love like He loves us.       

                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon … AT THIS LINK … tells of a photo taken, … which went viral on Facebook, … of an elderly man on a subway, helping an unknown teenager who was struggling to tie his tie as being a good illustration of Christlike love.  

And if my readers have listened to Zach Williams’ song about living to be more like Jesus and less like our ourselves … as well as taking in the Scriptures above:; … perhaps my fellow Christians are convicted, as I am, to do more today to live and love like Jesus.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … showing me to live for others today as You, Lord,  lived and loved for me for eternity.    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to share more of Your love for others today, Lord, thru the way we live for others.  …  Amen               . 

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