December 8, 2023… Overcoming Our Prejudices …

December 8, 2023… Overcoming Our Prejudices …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Andrew Ripp singing  … For the Love of God …  Poignantly, yet powerfully, singing of how God’s love and mercy is always there to overcome our surface judgement of others.  

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Highlight Passage: … John 1:46 [NLT] … 

46 “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” … 

… Nathaniel’s prejudice and judgement getting in the way of following Jesus.        

Highlight Passage (in context) … John 1:43-51  … USE THIS LINK … 

…Jesus’ mercy and love calls Nathaniel to overcome his surface prejudice and judgements        

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Reference Passage: … Luke 6:37-38 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b>

…Jesus’ teaching about the love of God and His mercy overcoming our prejudice and judgement of others.    

Reference Passage: … John 3:16-17 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus tells Nicodemus - and all mankind - of God’s willingness to overcome our selfish sin with HIS grace and mercy.       

Reference Passage: … Acts 10:34 (NLT] …  

34 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. …” 

… Peter learns and declares that in Christ God shows NO favoritism or prejudice.      

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 (NLT] …USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul shows fellow Christians that NOTHING in this life can separate the born-again Christian from God’s love and His mercy.  

Reference Passage: … Galatians 3:28 (NLT] … 

28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female.  For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

…The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians of Jesus coming, as Messiah  to overcome our differences and prejudices. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , James Banks  AT THIS LINK   - writes of a young man who learned the character and inner person of another young man, whom the first young man had hated because of the past animosities and wars between the the countries of the two men.  But getting to know each other, they were willing to set aside past prejudice and become friends.   

And if my readers today have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Reference Scriptures shared in my journal today, I pray we all follow the calls from our Lord to set aside our  prejudices and be willing to let God’s call for His chosen believers to set aside our judgement of others, based on any differences we may have with others and love each other as our Lord loves us … ALL OF US!! 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for loving me in spite of my sinfulness.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, …to be willing to show our love for one another as You, Lord, show Your love for us.  … Amen  

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