September 3, 2023 … Wearing His Mask …

 Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 246 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … Less Like Me … singing of how we Christians pray to become more like Jesus and less like ourselves. 

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Highlight Passage: … 2Corinthians 3:3  [NLT] … 

3 Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.  

… Paul shows fellow Christians that they (we) live to be a letter telling of how God’s Spirit reveals Christ written on our hearts. 

               

Highlight Passage (Context): … 2Corinthians 3:1-6 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul teaches how God’s Spirit gives us a Christlike exterior for all to see the Lord in the way we live our lives.                                                                                             

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] …  

3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You … all whose thoughts are fixed on You,… 

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah, of God’s peace if we trust in the Lord and live with HIs peace in our minds.      

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

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

… Jesus declares that HE is the only way to experience the light of Christ in our lives.   

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!  

…When we give our lives over to Christ, we become a new, Spirit-led, person.     

Reference Passage: … Galatian 5:22-23 [NLT] …  

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!.  

… Surrendered to follow Christ, we become like Him, showing off His character by the way we live our lives.   

Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… When we surrender in faith to Christ, His Spirit begins to be revealed in the way we live our lives for Him.  

                                                                                                                                        

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Katara Patton  … AT THIS LINK …  tells of being self-conscious, wearing a mask during the covid pandemic with “blessed” written on it (see photo), when really, it should be exactly what we Christians should be wearing proudly to let others see our Lord in the way we live.     

Thank about it, my fellow Christian readers.  Do our lives display Christ openly by the way we live for the Lord?  Are we seeking to live openly with a mask, displaying the Spirit-led words of Galatians 5:22-23  Oh how I pray that is so for all of us!      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your Spirit to display You in the way I live today.         

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to display Your Spirit, Lord, in the way I live for You today.   … Amen

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