Sept 18, 2020 … Helping Others

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 262 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     …   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing … If We Are the Body … poignantly singing of how we, as Christ’s Body must be reaching out with our body parts to help others who need the help. 

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Highlight Passage :  Leviticus 19:18 [ESV] ... 

18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.  

…    God’s clear command to His people to treat others they would treat themselves.   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Leviticus 19:9-18 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s command to love our neighbors and treat them as we would love and treat ourselves. 

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Reference Passage: …  Matthew 7:12 [ESV] …   

12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. … “ 

…  Jesus was clear on how we should treat others, repeating that truth from Old Testament truth.  It’s His “golden rule.”       

Reference Passage: …  Galatians 5:14, 6:9-10 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul repeatedly charges fellow Christians to reach out - as we have opportunity - to help others.

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 4:2, 32 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul continues to hammer home the truth of Christ’s law of love to fellow Christians … to help others in need as Christ helped all mankind with His love/grace. 

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 2:3-4 [ESV] …   

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 

…  Paul, once again, taking up the good news from Christ, exhorts fellow Christians to go beyond self interest and help others.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK  tells of how a broken elevator [see photo] became an insurmountable barrier to a wheelchair bound person trying to get to work.  

And the ODB story and the multiple truths from God’s word, shared above, pound home the message from God in the OT (see highlight passage], and especially thru Jesus and Paul in the NT, … that, as the group Casting Crowns sings in the linked song, … we, being the body of Christ, must become His hands, His feet, and His voice to reach out and do all we can to help others. 

How about we all look for opportunities today to fulfill the law of God’s love and help others as we would want them to help us if we had the need? 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for calling me out today to seek to help others as I would want them to help me.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to look for opportunities to help others who might have the need for what we have the ability to do to help.  … Amen

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