Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Peter Cetera singing … The Glory Of Love … powerfully singing of two who are married sharing God’s love forever … THEN TO THIS LINK with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing … Worthy Is the Lamb honoring God for His love.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Revelation 5:12 [NLT] … 12 And they [angels] sang in a mighty chorus: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered — to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.”
… Angels singing to honor the worthiness, honor, and glory of the Lamb of God … King Jesus!
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Highlight Passage [context]: Revelation 5:1-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… In his Revelation, John saw all angels singing of the worthiness of the LAMB OF GOD
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Reference Passage : … Micah 6:8 [NLT] … 8 No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what He requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
… God, thru His Prophet, Micah, tells us how we should live worthy lives to reflect God’s love for us.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 4:1 [NLT] … 1 Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.
… Tough one to live out, given the challenges of life, … but nonetheless truth!!
Reference Passage : … Matthew 5:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus tells His disciples how we are to live to honor God’s love, i.e., by shining the light of His love in our works so that others can see God in us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Mart DeHaan, uses a reference to a popular love song which speaks of two sharing an eternal love like we will share with Christ in eternity when we, the Bride of Christ, are joined with our Bridegroom. The ODB author writes … In 1936, songwriter Billy Hill released a popular hit song titled “The Glory of Love.” Before long a nation was singing about the joy of doing even little things out of love for one another. Fifty years later, lyricist Peter Cetera wrote a more romantic song with a similar title [see first linked song]. He imagined two people living forever, knowing together they did it all—for the glory of love.
Peter Cetera’s song [linked above], focusing on the love that can - and should - be shared by two in a marriage, simply reflects the love we, as part of the Bride of Christ (i.e., His Church) will share with the Lamb of God, our Bridegroom, for eternity. And that’s the love which the Apostle John was given vision in The Revelation and is shared with us in the highlight passage where John saw God’s angels singing of Jesus’ worthiness as the Lamb of God; and that is reflected in the glorious song shared by the Brooklyn Tab in the other linked song above.
And as the Apostle Paul begged Christians in Eph. 4:1 to live lives worthy of God’s love and sacrifice for us and as Jesus charged His followers … to shine His light of love so that others could see Him in us (see Matt. 5:14-16). So, let’s all be charged to go out today and live our lives for “The Glory of Love.”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your love which I can now share with others today.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here will take God’s charge to live out God’s love, … sharing it with others today and all days. … Amen
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