Oct 21, 2020 … What’s Wrong? … “I Am!”

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 295 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Jeremy Camp singing … The Answer … poignantly singing of how Jesus is THE answer to ALL the questions of what is wrong with this world. 

G.K. Chesterton's answer to the ? - "What's Wrong with the World"

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Highlight Passage:  1Timothy 1:15 [ESV] ... 

15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 

…   The Apostle Paul, totally surrendered to Christ as Lord, admits his sinful nature.  

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  1Timothy 1:12-17 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Paul, showing the humility and surrender necessary to overcome our sin nature. 

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Reference Passage: …   Ecclesiastes 7:20 [ESV] … 

20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.  

…   God, thru Solomon shows all that no one is righteous.  

Reference Passage: …   Isaiah 53:6 [ESV] … 

6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.  

…  God, thru the Prophet, shows that we have ALL gone astray; but it is God’s plan to lay all those stray sheep on The Messiah.   

Reference Passage: …  Romans 3:23, 6:23 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul declares the truth of our universal sin nature and God’s plan to give us a way to save ourselves.  

Reference Passage: …  1John 1:6-9 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…We lie if we say that we are not sinners; but THE solution to our nature is fellowship with The Christ. 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, John Blasé, AT THIS LINK  writes of a question which was in the London Times, … “What Is Wrong With the World?”  And a famous response came by postcard by well known Christian philosopher (see photo) showed that ALL of us sinners are the problem in the world with JESUS being the answer (hear the linked song). 

Solomon and Isaiah in the OT and Paul and John in the NT (see Scriptures above), all reinforce the truth that we, as God’s God’s sheep - ALL OF US - have gone astray in our sin; but, … our Heavenly Father has given us a way - HIS WAY - to get right and be in fellowship with Him; and that, of course, is surrendering to and confessing our sin to be cleansed forever.  

I pray all reading here have done so … and are doing so EVERY DAY!!    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for being the answer to our sin dilemma. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me to confess and surrender our sins to the Lord today; and … to allow Jesus to be the answer to what is wrong in our world.  … Amen

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