Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 125
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matthew West singing … Grace Upon Grace … poignantly singing of how it is God’s grace that continually transforms us into servants of the Lord and into His eternal likeness.
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Highlight Passage … Exodus 2:15 [NLT] …
15 And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian.
… Moses escapes to Midian after committing murder in Egypt to escape from Pharaoh’s justice and to be transformed into a shepherd by God’s grace.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Exodus 2:11-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Moses commits murder and escapes to the deserts of Midian to become a Shepherd for 40 years under God’s transforming grace. .
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Reference Passage: … Romans 12:2 [NLT] …
2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
… God’s grace changes the way we think into Christlike thinking.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:17 [NLT] …
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
… Paul teaches that true believers in Christ are transformed by God’s saving and sanctifying grace into the newness of Christlikeness.
Reference Passage: …Colossians 3:10-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to surrender our will to let God’s grace transform us into Christlikeness.
Reference Passage: … Titus 3:4-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians of the reality of God’s transforming grace through God’s Spirit. .
Reference Passage: … James 4:6-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… James, the brother of Jesus, teaches fellow Christians, by quoting from Prov 3:34 that God opposes the proud but gives His enabling grace thru the prayers of His humble disciples.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tom Felton … AT THIS LINK … wrote of a murderer sentenced to life in prison who, while in solitary confinement, came to be saved and transformed by God’s grace, ultimately leading a number of fellow prisoners to Christ after he was given access to other prisoners.
And this story led the ODB author to remember the transformation of Moses from a murderer in Egypt … to a shepherd in Midian (see Highlight passage) … to a deliverer whom God used to lead His chosen people out of Egypt toward the Promised Land. It shows us that God’s grace is greater than any sin we have committed (see photo), allowing all born-again Christians to be transformed into Christlikeness - see Scriptures above. And I pray all my readers have experienced and rely on God’s grace every day to transform us to become more like our Lord.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing Your grace to allow me to become more like You, Lord.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to humble ourselves to receive Your grace to become more You, Lord, day by day. … Amen .
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