Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and images from Joy Williams singing … Do They See Jesus In Me … poignantly singing of how we, as disciples of Christ, must strive to allow others to see Jesus in the way we live.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 1:27 [NLT] … 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.
… Each of us is created in God’s image.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 1:26-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God created man and woman in HIS image and He saw that it was good.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 139:13-14 [NIV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Each of us was wonderfully made and fashioned in the womb to reflect the image of God.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 24:44-45 [NIV] … 44 “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ … 45 “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’
… When we reject anyone - seeing them as less that God’s creation - we reject the One Who made them.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Patricia Raybon, uses a reference to a spokesmodel who came to accept her exterior as God’s way of showing His beauty thru her. And the ODB author wrote: When her beautiful brown skin started losing its color, a young woman felt frightened, as if she were disappearing or losing her “self.” With heavy makeup, she covered up “my spots,” as she called them—patches of lighter skin caused by a condition called vitiligo. It’s a loss of skin pigment, melanin, which gives skin its tone.
Then one day, she asked herself: Why hide? Relying on God’s strength to accept herself, she stopped wearing heavy makeup. Soon she began gaining attention for her self-confidence. Eventually she became the first spokesmodel with vitiligo for a global cosmetics brand. [see photo]
“It’s such a blessing,” she told a TV news host, adding that her faith, family, and friends are the ways she finds encouragement.
When we look in the mirror, do we see the image God sees in us? Do others see the beauty and grace created in us by our Lord? I pray that we do; and like the model in the photo, I pray that we do all we can to show the world the face and grace of our Creator.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for creating us in Your image.
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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 show others the grace and beauty You have created in us to show others Who You are. … Amen
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