Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Frank Sinatra singing … My Way … His signature song and the anthem of doing life our own way rather than following Christ … But there is another way, the right way and it’s found in Clay Crosse, Bob Carlisle, and Bebe Winans singing “I Will Follow Christ” - AT THIS LINK -
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Highlight Verse[s]: 2Peter 3:17-18 [NKJV] ... 17 You already know these things, dear friends. So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. 18 Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
… Peter, helping fellow Christians to grow in grace and to avoid the ways of the world.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 2Peter 3:14-18 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Peter, shows us that we need tp continue to grow in His sanctifying / enabling grace our entire lives.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:105 [NLT] … 105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
… God lights the way for our path in life thru His word.
Reference Passage : … Luke 9:23 [NLT] … 23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
… To be a disciple of Christ, He desires that we give up our own way and surrender to follow His.
Reference Passage : … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Christian life is learning to surrender to God’s way and avoid trying to take the road the world offers.
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 12:8-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We, as Christians, must learn as Paul did, to surrender our weaknesses to our Lord, where He can cover our weakness with His strength.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 4:13 [NLT] … 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
… Maturing in our relationship with Christ is learning, as Paul did, to use Christlikeness as our standard of direction.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Mike Wittmer, uses a word picture of child trying to learn how to ride a bike to illustrate how we, as Christians, mature in Christ the more we His way rather than trying life our way (see photo). … The ODB author wrote: Pastor Watson Jones remembers learning to ride a bike. His father was walking alongside when little Watson saw some girls sitting on a porch. “Daddy, I got this!” he said. He didn’t. He realized too late he hadn’t learned to balance without his father’s steadying grip. He wasn’t as grown up as he thought.
Our nature, as humans, tells us to do life “MY WAY,” as you may remember Frank Sinatra sang in his signature song [see linked song #1]. However, as Christians, we learn (as the Apostle Paul did - see scriptures above) that we become stronger and grow more mature in Christlikeness when we follow HIS way rather than trying to go it our way in life (see song #2).
So, today’s ODB entry and the reference passages above, are trying to help us to learn to surrender our will to the Lord’s way and avoid trying to go it alone. … No, … “lone ranger” Christianity will just take us off God’s road and lead us astray every time, won’t it? And He shows us the right way to go in life thru His word [see Ps. 119:105]. All we need to do is follow the light of His word to lead us out of the darkness of own way.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for showing us the way to go in/thru Your word.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to try to do what I do everyday, and follow God’s “GPS,” i.e., His word, … to start the day out on the right path.
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.</ span>
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