Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Joy Williams singing her song … Do The See Jesus In Me … poignantly singing of how God wants us to reflect Jesus’ light into this very dark world.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
… We were created to reflect Christlikeness, thru our good works, into a very dark world.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Ephesians 2:1-10 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows Christians that we’ve been made alive in Christ, having once been dead; and that we were created as His masterpiece to reflect Christlikeness into the world.
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Reference Passage : … Genesis 1:26a [NLT] … 26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. …”
… God made us to be like Him.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 5:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We are to reflect the light of Christ into this darkened world.
Reference Passage : … 2 Corinthians 4:6 [NLT] … 6 For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
… God made us to shine the light of Jesus into the world.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Dennis Fisher, used a story of a deceased mountain climber to illustrate how the light of Christ can shine into the world even after we’re gone. … The ODB author wrote: Lygon Stevens loved to climb mountains with her brother Nick. They were experienced climbers and both had summitted Mt. McKinley (Denali), the highest point in North America. Then, in January 2008, they were swept off a Colorado mountain by an avalanche, injuring Nick and killing twenty-year-old Lygon. When Nick later discovered his sister’s journal in one of her satchels, he was deeply comforted by its contents. It was filled with reflections, prayers, and praise to God as seen in this entry: “I am a work of art, signed by God. But He’s not done; in fact, He has just begun. . . . I have on me the fingerprint of God. Never will there ever be another person like me. . . . I have a job to do in this life that no other can do.”
Although Lygon is no longer physically present on earth, through the legacy of her life and her journal she inspires and challenges those she left behind.
Pop quiz today from the ODB entry above. Do we realize that God has created us to be like Him and to shine His light into this ever darkening world? I hope so; because we can if we’re surrendered to Him and living to fulfill the scriptures above.
I’m not going to cloud this blog with more explanation or exhortation … other than to challenge you to hear the linked song and meditate on God’s word above; and then let’s all ask ourselves what each of us can do to reflect more of Christ’s light today into the lives of souls darkened in this world.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for giving me Your Light to shine from my life into the lives of others.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … shine, Jesus, shine … thru me today. … 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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