May 26, 2023 … Jesus - My Answer

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 146

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Michael W Smith singing … Jesus Is The Answer … powerfully singing of how Jesus is the answer and the way to follow in this world. 

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Highlight Passage: … Daniel 3:25 [NLT] … 

25 “Look!” Nebuchadnezzar shouted. “I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god!”   

… King Nebuchadnezzar sees Jesus, the Son of God, in the fire saving the three Jewish boys.                                

Highlight Passage (Context): … Daniel 3:15-28 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The story of Daniel’s three friends thrown into the King’s fire is related to show that Jesus is the answer to all our “fires” in life.                                                  .                     

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

… God’s promise, thru Solomon, that He will lead us thru life if we but trust and follow His will and His ways and avoid trying to do life our own way..

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 26:3-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promised, thru the Prophet, Isaiah, of His peace when we follow the Lord’s ways in life..

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

6 Jesus told him [Thomas and His disciples], “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.. 

… Jesus declares to His disciples (and to us ) that following Him and Him alone is the way to God, The Father.                      

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul, teaching fellow Christians to be take all our cares to The Lord, Who is the source of all peace from our woes and worries. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:7 [NLT] … 

7 Give all your worries and cares to God, . for He cares about you.  

… The Apostle Peter charges fellow Christians to take all our cares and worries to our Lord, Who is the answer as we seek His love and grace to go thru life.       

                                                                                                                          

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Wittmer … AT THIS LINK …   relates the fanciful tale of Albert Einstein turning over an address to a group of students to His chauffeur, who supposedly knew Einstein’s lecture well enough to stand in for the brilliant scientist.  But in reality Einstein himself was the only one who could answer the questions that the students would have after the lecture.  

All too often, we try to think that we can take charge in life and be the answer to our own worries and challenges, … don’t we?…  But, in reality, Jesus - and Jesus ALONE - is our only answer.  And if you believe as I do, in the truth of God’s word above in the reference passages cited;  and we hold to what Michael W Smith sings in the linked song, … when we are challenged by the stressful and difficult times of life, we all know that following Jesus is our only way out.  

So today, I’m praying that we take our worries and our cares to the Lord in prayer [see Phil 4:6-7]; because, like Jesus did for those three boys in King Nebuchadnezzar’s fire (See highlight passage), King Jesus will always be there to give us His peace to deal with the fires of life.   HE, …  and He alone, … is our only answer. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for being my ANSWER today - and tomorrow. 

My Prayer Today Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek out our answers and our peace from You, Lord, again today.    … AMEN 

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