June 26, 2024 … Generations Helping Each Other …

June 26, 2024 … Generations Helping Each Other  …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Danny Gokey singing Love God To Love People … powerfully singing of how we Christians simply need to love God by loving and serving others.  

Loving God by loving poeple ... 

       

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Highlight Passage: … Ruth 2:11  [NLT] …

11 “Yes, I know,” Boaz replied. “But I also know about everything you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. I have heard how you left your father and mother and your own land to live here among complete strangers.   </i>          

…  Boaz commends Ruth for her helping spirit in helping her elder relative, asking for God’s blessing on Ruth.                                                                                     

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ruth 2:11-12, 3:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Boaz praised Ruth for her caring for her mother-in-law and asks for God’s blessing on Ruth for her helping spirit.                                                                                                 

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 145:4  [NLT] … 

4 Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.  

… King David sings of each generation telling their children of God’s mighty works, helping them to grow in the knowledge of the Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 20:29, 23:22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… Solomon teaches his sons to honor and serve the older generation for their wisdom. 

Reference Passage: … Luke 1:50  [NLT] …  

50 He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear Him.  

… Mary, the Mother of Jesus, sings of our God showing His mercies across all generations..  

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

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that, … like Christ …, they (we) must look out of the interests of others by helping them.       .    !         

Reference Passage: … 1Timothy 5:17 [NLT] … 

17 Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.   

…  Paul teaches Timothy (and all Christians to honor and support their teaching Elders (i.e.,Pastors/Priests).        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Katara Patton -  AT THIS LINK  -  relates a modern-day trend of the younger generation often having to help their elders with the rapid development of technology.       

Are any of my readers today like me, an octogenarian, who - at times - need a granddaughter (or younger person) to help me find my way in using my iMac or my cell phone? Well that’s what the story of Boaz lauding Ruth in the Bible book by her name teaches.  And we older folks should, like Boaz did, bless those younger folks, who reach out with a Christlike attitude, as brought out in the scriptures shared above, to do we can - generation to generation - to help each other navigate our way thru the complex technological world.  

Personally, I can use a lot of help (see photo).  How about you?    

         

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing those who reach out and help this old dude?

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to receive Your enabling grace, Lord, thru the help of others.     … Amen

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