Oct 3, 2020 … Sacrificing for Others

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 277 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Tommy Walker singing … Living Sacrifice … poignantly singing of how our lives as Christians should be a living sacrifice to the One Who sacrificed His all for us.  

Removing the intruder !! 

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Highlight Passage:  Ephesians 5:25  [ESV] ... 

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, …

…    Jesus was willing to give Himself up for His Bride, the Church, just as we should be willing to be a living sacrifice for others.   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Ephesians 5:25-33 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul uses a marriage truth to illustrate our duty as Christians to sacrifice self, on behalf of our Savior, Who was willing to die for His Bride. 

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Reference Passage: …  John 3:16-17 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus shows a Pharisee [and us] what God’s love is all about … and that is self sacrifice.    

Reference Passage</u>: …  John 15:13 [ESV] …  

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 

… Jesus shows His disciples (and us) that love is all about sacrificing self for others. 

Reference Passage: …  Romans 12:1 [ESV] …   

1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 

… As Christ sacrificed Himself for us, we must be willing to sacrifice our lives for others. 

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 exhorts fellow Christians to look out after the needs of others before our own.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Elisa Morgan, AT THIS LINK  uses a story of a husband, sacrificing his sleep to get up early in the morning to get rid of any cockroaches in the kitchen [see photo] so that his wife would not have to encounter something she feared greatly, … the story illustrating how we, as Christians, need to be willing to sacrifice our own interests to help others, especially our loved ones, … just as Jesus was willing to sacrifice Himself for His Bride, the Church [see Scriptures above]. 

And that, along with the linked song above, really says it all, doesn’t it, … about thinking and acting on the needs of others before our own self-interests?  Certainly that was what Jesus did for us, didn’t He?  So what will we be willing to do today to put the needs of others before our own interests?  

I pray we do!  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving Your all so that I can give my all for You.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to give our all to help others before thinking of our own needs and desires first. … Amen

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