Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube with images and lyrics from the Sara Groves singing … Abide With Me … poignantly singing of we only find meaning in life when we abide in our relationship with Christ.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 29:35 [NLT] … 35 Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, “Now I will praise the Lord!” And then she stopped having children.
… Judah became the name his mother recognized and praised her Lord with the name.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 29:31-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Leah first sought significance by having children for her husband, Jacob, but when he didn’t recognize her, on her fourth child, she named him to praise God and that child became the forebears of The Messiah, in the tribe of Judah.
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Reference Passage : … John 15:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, as the “Vine of Life,” declares that our lives only have meaning when lived in/for Him.
Reference Passage : …Romans 14:7-8 [NLT] … 7 For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. 8 If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
… EVERYTHING we think, say, and do is for our Lord!!
Reference Passage : … Philippians 3:8 [NLT] … 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
… We only find worth in our relationship with Christ.
Reference Passage : … Colossians 3:15-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… EVERYTHING we are, EVERYTHING we do, finds significance in Christ, who created EVERYTHING for His Father’s glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Peter Chin, uses a word picture of modern social media to illustrate how so many in the current generation do all they can to find their worth thru recognition in social media. The ODB author wrote … In a TV program, young adults posed as high school students to better understand the lives of teenagers. They discovered that social media plays a central role in how teens measure their self-worth [see photo]. One participant observed, “[The students’] self-value is attached to social media—it’s dependent on how many ‘likes’ they get on a photo.” This need for acceptance by others can drive young people to extreme behavior online.
The longing for being accepted by others has always been there.
Certainly the latter statement is true, isn’t it? … And the ODB author used the highlight story of how Jacob’s wife tried to please her husband for years by naming her sons to honor him, without any recognition from her husband [see Gen. 29]. Finally, in her fourth child, “Judah,” she named him to praise and honor God with the child’s name, which means “PRASE”; and this child became the ancestor of David and Christ.
And this showed what Jesus and the Apostle Paul taught (see reference passages) … that our ONLY significance and worth in this world comes from an abiding relationship with Christ. So, when we do what is sung in the linked song, … to abide in Christ and to know Him intimately, … we find our meaning for life.
So, I pray that all here with me today will join me to seek our essence for life in building our relationship with King Jesus; and that - MOST CERTAINLY - is why you find me here every morning, doing all I can, thru prayer and my time in God’s word, … getting to know my Lord, Jesus, more intimately.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for giving me the only REAL meaning for life.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me and to do all we can to find our meaning for life in our relationship with You. … Amen
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