April 8, 2023 … Run To Jesus …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 98 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Hillsong singing … I Run To You … poignantly singing of how God calls any/all who would believe on The Christ as Lord to run to Him in faith.    

Peter and John running to Jesus' grave ... 

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Highlight Passage: … John 20:4-5 [NLT] … 

<i> 3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.. …  </i>

… Two Disciples run to Jesus’ tomb. 

Highlight Passage (Context): …  John 20:1-10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Disciples John and Peter run to the tomb where Jesus’ body had been lain. .                    

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Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:13 [NLT] … </b>

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 

… God’s promise to His people, thru Jeremiah, that any/all who seek after God’s hear will find Him as Lord and Savior.  

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

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  

… Jesus teaches Nicodemus - and us - that WHOEVER believes in Him will find everlasting life.  

Reference Passage: … John 6:37 [NLT] … 

37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. 

… God’s promise, thru Jesus Himself, that He will hold onto to ALL whom the Father brings to Him for salvation.       

Reference Passage: … John 14:6 [NLT] … 

6 Jesus said to [Thomas and the disciples], “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.  

… Jesus teaches His disciples in the upper room … that receiving Him as Lord is the only way to come to God, the Father, for salvation.    

Reference Passage: … Romans 10:13 [NLT] … 

 3 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”  

… Paul quotes God’s word (i.e., Joel 2:32) of God’s promise to save anyone who comes to Christ believing on Him - and Him alone - as Lord and our Messiah.          

                                                                                                            

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Arthur Jackson … AT THIS LINK … tells of some college friends being in Paris and becoming enthralled by seeing a painting titled The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand, (see photo of the painting), which depicts the Disciples Peter and John running desperately to see the grave of Jesus, after they had heard that His grave was empty. 

And the faces of Peter and John in the photo depict the desperation of heart we - as seekers of God’s saving grace - should be running after Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  It certainly is my heart to be here every day running desperately to know my Lord thru His word.  How about you, ..  my friend, … do you run with me to seek to know Jesus today?   I pray so!                                                           

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to run to know You, my Lord.    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to run together, as seekers after God’s heart, and to know You, Lord, as our resurrected Messiah.        …  Amen               . 

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