August 30 2023 … Following His Straight Path …

Berry atch Devotions in 2023 - Day 243 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from a praise group singing … Straight Paths … singing from Proverbs 3:5-6 of how, we Christians must trust and follow God’s straight path to glory.     

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 26:7 [NLT] … 

7 But for those who are righteous, the way in not steep and rough.  You are a God Who does what is right and You smooth out the patch ahead of them. 

… God promises a straight path of glory for His remnant of righteous ones.    .                                                                       

Highlight Passage (Context): … Isaiah 26:1-13 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s promise, thru Isiah, that the Lord will ultimately show His faithful Remnant the way of peace for the righteous.                                                                                            

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 5:8, 32:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…King David sings of following God’s straight patch in life, following The Lord to glory.  

Reference Passage: … Psalms 119:105 [NLT] …  

105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my patch.  

…  King David declares that He will follow God’s word as a light for his path in life.       

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

…  God, thru Solomon, shows that we must trust God COMPLETELY, showing the right path to take in life.                   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 3:3 [NLT] …  

3 The prophet Isaiah was speaking about John when he said, “He is a voice shouting in the wilderness,  ‘Prepare the way for the Lord’s coming!  Clear the road for Him!’”  

… John The Baptist quotes from Isaiah 40:3 that Jesus, The Christ, was sent by God to prepare the way for those who believe to follow Him on God’s path to glory.   

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

 6 Jesus told (His disciples in the upper room), “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

… Jesus declares to His disciples that following Him was the only straight way to glory.        

                                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Anne Cetas  … AT THIS LINK …  Used a story about Beep Baseball, where blinded players try to hit a beeping ball and run to bases which buzz to allow the sight-impaired and blindfolded players to run to the bases when they hit the ball.  

And if my readers have taken in the inked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, we, should SEE that the only way for those of us who are blinded by our sin nature, can run a straight path to God’s glory is to follow the path laid out by trusting and following our Lord, Who will lead us on His straight path to heaven.  So, are we on the right path … really THE ONLY path … to heaven and that is following our Lord as He leads us to glory.    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me THE WAY, … really Your ONLY WAY …  to glory.  …     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to follow Your way, Lord, as You lead us to glory.  … Amen

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