Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Avalon singing … Everything To Me … poignantly singing how we can choose to make Jesus our everything in life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 20:7 [NLT] … 7 Some nations boast of their chariots and horses; but we boast in the name of our God. Those nations will fall down and collapse, but we will rise up and stand firm.
… Christians must put NOTHING in the place of our relationship with our God.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 20 [NLT]… USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of how his God is #1 in his life.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Trust God with ALL YOUR HEART … and … Acknowledge Him with ALL OUR WAYS.
Reference Passage : … John 15: 5, 7 [NKJV] … 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. … 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
… Abiding in Christ is putting Him above all aspects of our life, … i.e, making Him our passion.
Reference Passage : … 1John 2:15-17 [NKJV] … 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
… God’s strong warning to avoid elevating anything in this world above our abiding love for Jesus.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, David H Roper, uses an illustration of how we can let earthly/worldly things become idols in our lives. The ODB author wrote: One of the tellers at my bank has a photograph of a Shelby Cobra roadster on his window. (The Cobra is a high-performance automobile built by the Ford Motor Company. ... See photo above)
One day, while transacting business at the bank, I asked him if that was his car. “No,” he replied, “that’s my passion, my reason to get up every morning and go to work. I’m going to own one someday.”
I understand this young man’s passion. A friend of mine owned a Cobra, and I drove it on one occasion! It’s a mean machine! But a Cobra, like everything else in this world, isn’t worth living for. Those who trust in things apart from God “are brought to their knees and fall,” according to the psalmist (Psalm 20:8).
So, is our passion our relationship with Christ and filing our lives with His truth and our surrender to His ways? Or do we pursue passions like the Cobra in the ODB entry above?
God put a “love-hole” in the soul of every one of us that only HE can fill; and that is clearly expressed in the Scriptures above as well as the linked song. Our challenge … what drives our lives? What do we pursue above all else? … What is our passion?
Because if it’s anything besides an abiding, surrendered life to our King Jesus, we have let idols become our passion; and we’ll never live the fruitful life God desires for us (see John 15: 5,7 and 1John 2:15-17). We get to choose our passion in life, don’t we? God's questions become …
WHAT IS OUR CHOICE?!! … WHAT IS OUR PASSION?!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for showing my way to be fulfilled by Your love/grace.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Be my passion in life.!… Amen
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