Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Wayne Watson singing … Love Found A Way … poignantly singing of how God showed mankind that love always finds a way to overcome and cleanse our selfish and hating souls.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1 Peter 4:8 [ESV] ... 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
… Peter shows fellow Christians that love covers a multitude of sins.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1 Peter 4:7-11 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Peter, shows us that living with God’s love cleanses the soul of our sin nature.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 10:12 [ESV] … 12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
… God, thru Solomon, shows us the contamination of our souls with hatred and the cleansing of our soul with God’s love.
Reference Passage : … John 3:16-17 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s love came into the world in the person of King Jesus to save us from our human hatred and provide us with the cleansing love of God.
Reference Passage : … 1John 1:7-9 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… We are cleansed by God’s love when we’re humble enough to confess our sins and allow God’s grace to cleanse our soul of our human sin.
Reference Passage : … Revelation 3:20 [ESV] … 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
… Jesus commands His Church to open the door daily - really every moment - and let Him cleanse us and fellowship with us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Remi Oyedele, uses the story of how a British Pastor came to know that our Abba Father watches over His children, intervening when necessary for protection or provision. … The ODB author wrote: “Hatred corrodes the container that carries it.” These words were spoken by former Senator Alan Simpson at the funeral of George H. W. Bush. Attempting to describe his dear friend’s kindness, Senator Simpson recalled how the forty-first president of the United States embraced humor and love rather than hatred in his professional leadership and personal relationships.
I relate to the senator’s quote, don’t you? Oh, the damage done to me when I harbor hatred!
The attached photo shows what a container looks like before/after it is cleansed, … thereby picturing why God’s love came into the world in the person of our Messiah, … to save and cleanse us of our dirty souls and the hatred which we hold in our human nature.
But Senator Simpson declared that former President Bush was able to rise above his human nature to showcase a soul cleansed of that dirtiness. And we know, from Bush’s testimony, how much he attributed who he had become … to God’s love in his life and his relationship with Christ.
And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the truth provided in the Scriptures above, then I pray we all have have experienced … and are daily experiencing … the cleansing love of God, … the love which allows us all to be cleansed of the dirtiness of our human nature, … cleansed to showcase the love of God to others.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving us Your Nature and Spirit to cleanse our own dirty nature.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to open the door (see Rev. 3:20) and to allow God’s love to cleanse our souls. Amen
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