August 28 2023 … Starting Over …

Berry atch Devotions in 2023 - Day 241 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Ryan Stevenson singing … Fresh Start … powerfully singing of how, no matter what we go thru, God gives His children the opportunity to start over in Christ.     

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Highlight Passage: … Job 1:21 [NLT] … 

21 “ … “The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away, Praise the name of the Lord.”  

… Even in Job’s loss, he was able to worship and praise the Lord by starting over.                                                                           

Highlight Passage (Context): … Job 2:13-22 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Job’s faith, in all his loss, called God’s faithful servant to start over.                                           

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

… We Christians are called to trust in our Lord with all our hearts, no matter what we face in life.

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 43:19 [NLT] …  

19 For I am about to do something new.  See, I have already begun!  Do you not see it?  I will make a pathway through the wilderness.  I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.  

…  God’s promise, thru Isaiah to His people that He, The Lord, will make a new world for His people. .  

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 29:11 [NLT] …  

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope..    

…  God’s promise to HIs people, thru the prophet Jeremiah to carry our His covenant plans for His people.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28 [NLT] …  

28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.   

…  Paul teaches fellow Christians truth about our Lord causing EVERYTHING to work for the good of those who live according to God’s purposes.                  

Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:4 [NLT] …  

4 .He will waive ever tear from their eyes, and there will be nome death or sorrow or crying or pain.  All these things are gone forever.”   

… God’s promise of a New Jerusalem for all His people.       

                                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson  … AT THIS LINK … related a story about an enterprising engineer, name Cesar, who, much like the biblical story of Job, lost all he owned to a radical government and rather than wallowing in self pity, simply  started over .  

Personally, I’ve always been convicted by the witness and the account of Job in God’s word.  He lost everything …. EVERYTHING; …  and yet this servant of God was able to worship his God.  Could you and I do that?  Oh, how I pray so!!  

PS:  Every year on Dec 31st, my computer reminds me to read a poem by Woodrow Kroll, entitled Start Over!.  Well, it’s not 12/31; but you can still read the poem … AT THIS LINK    ….  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being there for me … ALWAYS!    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to trust in You, Lord, to lift us up when we encounter the troubles of life.  

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