July 6, 2025 … Choices —-> Consequences …

July 6, 2025 … Choices —-> Consequences    … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Phil Wickham singing… The Jesus Way,  calls on Christians to follow Jesus’ way in life.  

CHOOSING to take "The Jesus Way" ... 

Highlight Passage: … Genesis 3:6  … [NLT] … </b>

6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.  

…  Eve first, then Adam choose to follow the invitation of Satan to eat of the forbidden fruit from the tree of life in the Garden.        

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Genesis 3:1-7  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Adam and Eve choose to disobey God’s command … AND —->       

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 30:19-20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Moses gives God’s people the results of following God, … leading to life or the curses of death which results from following Satan.  They (we) get to choose!  (See Photo) 

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

…  Solomon charges fellow believers to trust God and follow His way in life.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:13-14 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus calls on His followers to take and follow the narrow road to life, the road leading to His glory.. 

Reference Passage: … John 10:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows His followers Satan’s way, which leads to destruction and His way, leading to an abundant life.   We get to choose!   

Reference Passage:…  John 14:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows Thomas and His disciples that following HIM is the ONLY WAY leading to God’s Kingdom. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that choosing to receive God’s saving grace is the only way to get to glory..  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Winn Collier  … AT THIS LINK        … related how an amateur ornithologist chose to release 60 European starlings in Central Park in New York in 1890, which resulted in about 85,000,000 of the bird species across the nation, … which, in turn, has resulted in the spread of disease and roughly over 800 million dollars of damage each year.  The ODB author certainly illustrates that our choices ALWAYS result in consequences.   

As God’s chosen, we ALL are given the freedom to make choices, just as Eve first, and then Adam, chose to eat of the forbidden fruit.  And God’s word, as shared above, shows us that our choices ALWAYS have consequences.   Personally, i have learned that following God’s narrow way, what Phil Wickham sings as “The Jesus Way,” is the only way to lead to life ,,, with Satan’s broad way, leading to death (see photo).  I’m choosing God’s way!   How about you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for showing me Your way, Lord! 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for reading us down Your narrow way, … all the way to glory.    … Amen

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