June 1 2025 … God’s Thoughtfulness …

June 1 2025 … God’s Thoughtfulness    …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group Casting Crowns singing… God Of All My Days,  showing all Christians that God cares about all our days.

Highlight Passage: … 2Kings 20:19  … [NLT] … 

19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “This message you have given me from the Lord is good.” For the king was thinking, “At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.”             

…   Hezekiiah recognizes that all that God has for His people if for their good even if it meant exile to Babylon..       

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … 2Kings 20:12-19  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Isaiah shows Hezekiah that one day Judah was going to be exiled to Babylon.                         

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Highlight Passage (in context): … Psalms 139:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings of God’s thoughtfulness and caring heart for him.

Reference Passage: …  Luke 6:31 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus teaches what we know of as His “Golden Rule” about thinking and caring for others as we would have them care for us.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth about treating and caring for others as Christ has cared for all Christians.

Reference Passage: … 1Thessalonians 5:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul encourages and exhorts fellow Christians to encourage one another and build each other up.

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 10:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, calls for fellow Christians to do all we can to think of ways to edify one another.  

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

… Peter calls on fellow Christians, especially those who are persecuted, to take all our cares to our God Who deeply cares for His chosen ones.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - James Banks … AT THIS LINK       … wrote of visiting a friend in the hospital being treated for an infection who also was already paralyzed from a past accident, rendering his friend quadriplegic.  And as his hospitalized friend showed the ODB authorities the scar from the recent surgery, his paralyzed friend revealed that he was not able to feel any pain from the incision due to his previous paralysis.  And the incident caused the ODB author to realize that he had no real empathy for his friends ailments.    

Today’s ODB entry, the linked song, and the Scriptures shared above, reminded me how shallow my feeling can be for others when I can’t feel for their pain like God does, … our God, Who ALWAYS knows all the pain we encounter in life and calls for us to feel and care for others the way He, our Lord, cares for us.  So, I’m convicted here today to do all I can to reach out with God’s “Golden Rule” in mind and share God’s love and grace with others today.   Will you join me?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for calling me to do all I can to reach out with God’s love/grace today.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for calling us to be Your ambassadors of grace and thoughtfulness today..     … Amen

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