Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in YouTube images and lyrics with the group Avalon singing … Everything To Me … poignantly singing of how Jesus must become our EVERYTHING!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Colossians 1:15, 17 [NLT] … 15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, … 17 He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together.
… Jesus is everything and everything is for Him.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Colossians 1:15-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, declares the veneration we must hold in our relationship with Christ … that He is our all in all.
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Reference Passage : … Psalms 8:3-4, 36:6, 50:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… When we look to the highest mountains [see photo], we get a faint reflection of the glory of God … that He is above EVERYTHING!!
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author,Tim Gustafson, uses a question from a friend to point to the importance of Christ. The ODB author writes … My husband invited a friend to church. After the service his friend said, “I liked the songs and the atmosphere, but I don’t get it. Why do you give Jesus such a high place of honor?” My husband then explained to him that Christianity is a relationship with Christ. Without Him, Christianity would be meaningless. It’s because of what Jesus has done in our lives that we meet together and praise Him.
Who is Jesus and what has He done? The apostle Paul answered this question in Colossians 1. No one has seen God, but Jesus came to reflect and reveal Him (v. 15).
When my Pastor prays, we often hear him say, … “Oh, Lord, You are so worthy and we are so needy.” And I think that statement of who we are and Whom we worship sums up our relationship with God about as well as any, don’t you?
And, as the group Avalon sings in the linked song, as well as the Psalms referenced above, our Lord is mightier and higher than any mountain peak (see photo); and the question from today’s ODB devotion arises for me (and you as well) … “Is our Lord, who is King Jesus, EVERYTHING to us?” And is there anything in our lives that we elevate to a place higher than our King, … our LORD, … the Christ? Because if so, we need to tear that thing down, whether it’s a sin stronghold, or just something that gets in the way of our worship of the Lord, and elevate Jesus to His rightful place in our lives.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for being my EVERYTHING!
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to tear down anything in our lives which has taken a place of honor/worship that is higher than You, Lord. Oh, yes, Lord, You are worthy and we are needy!! … Amen
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