Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of Philliips, Craig, and Dean singing their song… He’ll Do Whatever It Takes … poignantly singing of how God’s grace will do whatever it takes to bring us into fellowship with our God.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 25;4 [NLT] … 4 Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.
… David, as we all should, so desires to follow God’s righteous path.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 25:1-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David reveals a deep desire to be free from sin and following the right path of God.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows us that we can have the right path in life if we trust Him to show the way.
Reference Passage : … 1John 1:9, 2:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … Paul shows fellow Christians (and you/me) the cleansing power of Jesus as our advocate before God’s throne of grace.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, David Roper, used a personal reflection of his life on a farm to illustrate how God wants to reveal the rocks which get in the way of a righteous life. The ODB author wrote: As a boy, I watched my father plow fields that had never been cultivated. [See photo] On the first pass the plowshare would turn up large rocks that he hauled away. Then, he would plow the field again, and then again, to further break up the soil. With each pass the plow turned up other, smaller rocks that he cast aside. The process continued, requiring many passes through the field.
The ODB author’s story is a good personal picture of how we must plow thru life [see photo] and let God reveal the rocks [of sin] which impede our righteous walk with Christ. Over time, as the linked song reveals, God will do whatever it takes to allow us to find the rocks in His field so that we, as His disciples, can become more fruitful and follow Him more easy.
As a Christian, like me, readers here may have experienced how God reveals the big sins early in our walk with Him. Then, over time, the smaller ones are revealed and cleared from His field, allowing the soil of our lives to become clearer and clearer and more fruitful for His kingdom growth.
So, we learn from the truth of God’s word [see Scriptures above], that He promises to turn over the rocks of sin in our lives and even to help us clear them so that we can become the disciples we need to be to become fruitful for Christ.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for revealing the rocks of sin in my life, as painful as it can be at times.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Help me to clear Your field so that Your fruit may grow in my life. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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