April 9, 2024 … Clothed in Christlikeness …

April 9, 2024 …  Clothed in Christlikeness  …       

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Lauren Daigle singing … Light of the World …  Poignantly and yet powerfully singing of how we Christians must choose to walk-in the Light of the world,…following Christ in all we do.          

Walking by the Light of Christlikeness ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 13:12 [NLT] …  

12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living.           

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to walk out of the darkness into the light of Christlikeness.                                         

Highlight Passage (in context): … Romans 13:11-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul writes and teaches of waling out of the darkness into the light of Christ.        

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Reference Passage: …  Psalms 119:105-106 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …        

…King David sings of God giving use the light of His word to follow His path to glory; and we must use God’s truth to lead us to His glory. 

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 5:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …       

… In His sermon on the mount, Jesus teaches of walking in His light to show the world of His light in the darkness of this world.

Reference Passage: … John 8:12 [NLT] … 

12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”  

…Jesus shows the religious leaders following Him that HE is the light of the world and we are to follow Him and walk in His light.  

Reference Passage:  … Ephesians 5:8  [NLT]  …  

8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!  

… The Apostle Paul shows believers that they were once walking the darkness of sin but now can walk in the light of Christlikeness.     

Reference Passage: …  Colossians 1:11-14 … USE THIS LINK  … 

… Paul prays that fellow Christians will continue to walk in the light of Christ and out of the darkness of sin.   

Reference Passage:  … 1John 1:5-7  [NLT]  … USE THIS  LINK … 

… The Apostle John exhorts fellow Christians to walk in the light of Christ and out of the darkness of our sin nature.  

                   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s <b><i> Our Daily Bread</b></i>  Author, Karen Pimpo  -  AT THIS LINK -  used an illustration of putting on new glasses to see things so much clearer; but having to get used the new frames which were painful for awhile in getting use to wearing the new glasses.

And that’s an apt illustration of what it’s like when see and follow the light of Christlikeness when we are born-agin and wear the light of Christ in our lives.  And if my readers are truly Christians, you likely remember how it was difficult to put on the robes of Christlikeness and walk in His light rather than return to the darkness of our sin nature.  

And it’s been over 40 years for me to walk in the light of Christ and I still have to put on Christ’s robes of rightness EVERY DAY rather than to choose to walk in the darkness of my flesh.   Can you identify, … maybe even empathize …  with me?   Well, let’s pray that we can put on Christ’s robes again today and shine Christ’s light for all to see Him in us as we CHOOSE to live and walk in His light.                                    

My THANKFULNESS:... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your light to follow every day thru Your word.    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to walk Your path, Lord; following the light of Your word every day.   … Amen

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