November 15, 2023… The Main Thing …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Christy Nockels  singing  … Find Me At the Feet of Jesus …  Poignantly singing of how we Christians be at the feet of Jesus, surrendering and worshipping Him with our lives.  . 

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Highlight Passage: … Luke 10:41-42 [NLT] … 

41 But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details!  42 There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.” 

… Jesus lauds Mary for discovering the ONE THING that we all should do in life and that is to worship Jesus with our lives.  

Highlight Passage (in context)</u>: Luke 10:38-42 (NLT) … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus teaches Martha about Mary’s attention to the “one thing” that is important … and that is worshipping our Lord with our our lives           

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

… God’s demands, thru Solomon, that believers trust God, above all things in this world;, to lead us to His glory . 

Reference Passage: …Matthew 6:19-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teches - in His Sermon on the Mount - of letting our lives avoid letting the treasures of the world become our focus of our lives.    

Reference Passage: …John 15:5-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His disciples (and us) that they (we) must abide in Him to be fruitful in life.   

Reference Passage </u>: … Romans 12:2 [NLT] …  </b>

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,   

… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to avoid copying the ways of the world and surrendering to let God’s Spirit transform them (us) by following Christ.               

                                                                              

Reference Passage: …Jude 1:17-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus’ brother, Jude, calls on fellow Christians (and us) to surrender to the teaching of the Apostles and focusing on surrendering our lives to worship the Lord by abiding in Him.

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye … AT THIS LINK …   tells of teaching at a weekend retreat with other Christians in England where the focus of the retreat was to see if the participants had learned the truth that Mary had learned to worship our Lord (see highlight passage) when Jesus and His disciples had come to visit in the home of Lazarus, Martha, and Mary.  And being snowed in for the retreat, the participants learned that they (and we) must come to realize and live like Mary, seeking to worship and abide in Christ as her (and our) priority focus in life.   

And as my readers take in the lovely linked song and meditate on the story of Mary at the feet of Jesus and the reference Scriptures above, I’m praying that all reading with me here - and certainly yours truly - will be convicted to focus on being at Jesus feet; and avoiding the ways of the world and the selfishness of our sin nature, to surrender and focus on abiding in Christ to worship Him with our lives.        

   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to worship at Your feet … ALWAYS.         

My Prayer Today:: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to seek to make You, Lord, as our worship and the MAIN THING in our lives.        … Amen 

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