July 7, 2024v… Stuck In Chocolate …

July 7, 2024v… Stuck In Chocolate   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from The Gettys, Matt Boswell, and Matt Papa singing God of Every Grace … powerfully singing of how God’s grace raises us to glory from the pits of our sin.  

Jeremiah stuck in a muddy cistern ... 

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Highlight Passage </u>: … Jeremiah 38:10  [NLT] … 

10 So the king told Ebed-melech, “Take thirty of my men with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”    

Jeremiah is saved by an Ethiopian court official who recognized and reported Jeremiah’s life-threatening dilemma of being unjustly thrown into the mud in a cistern.  

    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Jeremiah 38:1-10  [NLT] … USE THIS  LINK…  

… Jeremiah is saved from a cistern by God’s grace thru King Zedekiah’s change of mind and a respected Ethiopian court official who recognized Jeremiah’s dilemma and reported it to the King.                                                                                                           

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

… Solomon shows believers that our trust in God;s will and His way of grace to lead us onward to His glory.         

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10  [NLT] …  

10 Do not be afraid, for I AM with you.  Don’t be discouraged for I AM your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with My victorious right hand.  

… God’s promise to lift us up when we feel so weak in our humanity.       

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 12:9  [NLT] … </b> 

9 Each time He said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

… The Apostle Paul remembers and share the teaching of Jesus … that, in the face of trials and even suffering, God’s enabling and sustaining grace is enough for Christians to sustain the trials of life.   

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 4:16, 6:10 [NLT]  … USE THIS LINK …  

… We read of God’s mercy and grace being there in the midst of trials to lift believers up.

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:7 [NLT]  … 

7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.  … 

… Peter exhorts fellow Christians to give over ALL their (our) worries to a our God Who deeply cares for His children.        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s <b><i> Our Daily Bread</b></i> Author, Kirsten Holmberg -  AT THIS LINK  -   -  relates the story of two workers in a Mars chocolate factory who fell into a vat of chocolate and had to rely on the help of local firefighters, who had to cut open the vat to bring the workers out.  

             

Perhaps some of you, who’re reading with me here, feel - or have felt - stuck in the circumstances of life which may, even right now, have you feeling as Jeremiah must’ve felt like when he was lowered into a cistern of mud (see photo) in the highlight passage.  But today’s ODB entry and the Scriptures shared above, along with the linked song, tell us that we can rely, and must have faith, that our God can - AND WILL - provide us, as the Lord did for Jeremiah, His grace to lift us out of the cisterns of life where we find ourselves mired down … any time … anywhere.  

But do we really believe in God’s enabling grace to be there to lift us up?   I do!!  How about you?                   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for ALWAYS being there with Your enabling grace.           

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to pray for Your grace, Lord, when we feel mired in the muddy circumstances of life.  …   Amen

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