Sept 19, 2020 … Seeing More Clearly

 

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 263 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group The Newsboys singing … We Believe … poignantly singing of how we must see life thru the eyes of faith rather than thru our distorted/selfish vision of the flesh. 

                 Seeing life more clearly thru the lens of God's truth ... 

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Highlight Passage:  Acts 3:16 [ESV] ... 

16 And His name—by faith in His name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all 

…    The Apostles show their followers that seeing life thru eyes of faith in Jesus changes our lives forever.  

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Acts 3:2-8, 16 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostles help a lame beggar see through eyes of faith rather than thru the desires of the flesh. 

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Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… Solomon shows that trusting (i.e., believing) in God is at the heart of seeing life clearly. 

Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 23:7  [NKJV] …   

7 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 

…  We become what we think.  

Reference Passage: …  Romans 12:2  [ESV] …   

2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 

…  We must avoid worldly thinking so as to clearly see and follow God’s will and His way in life.   

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 11:1, 6 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… We life so much more clearly when we view it thru the eyes of faith. 

My Devotional Journal:  Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK  quotes Mark Twain about how we see life, … where Twain said, “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”  

Interesting bit of wisdom.  Too bad Samuel Clemens (i.e. Mark Twain) didn’t take heed to his own wise advice, being a non-believer at the time he spoke those words.  And it’s God’s wisdom (see scriptures above) which helps us all see the truth that we’ll never see life really clearly until we see it thru the eyes of faith in Christ, which is what the group Newsboys is singing about in the linked song.   

And I pray that all reading with me here today are putting on their lenses of faith in Chris to be able to see life as clearly as we can, … primarily by viewing our circumstances thru the lenses of faith in God’s word [see photo].   Because when we do, we will be able to see God’s will and His way more clearly. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving me the lenses of faith in Your truth to be able to follow Your way today. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to use the lenses of God’s truth to be able to follow God’s will and His way more clearly. .… Amen

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