March 23, 2024 … Sharing God’s Lavish Love …

March 23, 2024 …  Sharing God’s Lavish Love …     

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Cory Asbury singing … Reckless Love …  Powerfully singing of how God shares His reckless love with anyone who surrenders and receives God lavish love.  

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Highlight Passage: … 1Peter 2:12 [NLT] … 

12 Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world..           

… Peter extols fellow Christians to live like Christ so as to point others to God’s love thru the way we Christians live.                       

Highlight Passage (in context)  …  1Peter 2:11-12 … USE THIS LINK … 

…Peter, writing to persecuted Christians, exhorts them (and us) to live as Christ lived so that others will experience Christ’s love by the way we live.                       

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 23:1-6 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of God being our “Good Shepherd,” Who lavishes His love on those who faithfully follow Him as Lord.     

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

… Jesus declares the extent of God’s love for those who believe on Him as Messiah and Lord.           

Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8; 8:37-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians about God’s extravagant love.   

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:4-7 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians what God’s love really looks like in the way they (we) live our lives for others. 

Reference Passage: …Ephesians 3:20 [NLT] …  

20 Now all glory to God, Who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.. 

… Paul also calls on fellow Christians to love others as Jesus loves us so that they will be drawn to His love and saving grace.    

Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] …  

1 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him. 

… God, thru John, calls Christians to shower others with God’s love so that they will see Christ living in and thru our good deeds.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Mike Wittmer-  AT THIS LINK -  told of sitting next to a non-believer on a flight, who reported moving to a town where many of her neighbors were church-goers and was so impressed by how these so-called “Christians” showered this non-believer’s handicapped father with lavish love and caring compassion.     

And today’s ODB entry calls out for me - and all Christians - to see if the way we live our lives demonstrates God’s lavish love openly and obviously points others to Christ as we live our lives to show God’s love to any and all who might see Christlike love by the way we live for others.  So, let’s all take in today’s linked song and meditate on the Scriptures above and then go out - maybe even today - and share God’s extravagant love with someone.                     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your enabling grace to share Your lavish love with someone.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me again today, … to show off Your lavish love, Lord, by the way I love others to point them to You today.  … Amen

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