Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 326
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the Heritage Singers singing … PeaceSpeaker … poignantly singing of how we when we truly know Jesus we know the “PeaceSpeaker,” … the way out of the darkness into the light, … by knowing Him more intimately.
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Highlight Passage: James 3:13, … 18 [ESV] ...
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. … 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
… James knew that the only way to peace is sown and received from Godly wisdom.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … James 3:13-18 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru James, teaches of how we seek peace … thru God’s wisdom, … not our own.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:105-107 … [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ...
… God’s Psalmist sings of the way to find righteousness and peace … by following God’s word as a light in the darkness.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 … [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Solomon knew that the only way to find our way peacefully thru life is to trust God’s way and not our own.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 26:3 … [ESV] …
3 You (Lord) keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You.
… God, thru Isaiah, shows the way to peace … by keeping our mind on God’s will and His way.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:33 … [ESV] …
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
… Jesus preaches that the only way to find our needs and direction in life is to seek after God’s kingdom and HIS righteousness … FIRST!
Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul knew that the only way to find God’s peace was to thankfully pray for it, trusting that God’s way was was <u>the only way</u>.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder AT THIS LINK uses the darkness and death of WW1 to illustrate what mankind will find if we seek to do life our selfish way rather than seeking first after the righteousness of God.
And that is what all of what God’s truth (i.e., His word) points to above, isn’t it? So, I’m not going to expound further on what God’s wisdom clearly says to us and the linked song reinforces.
So, I will only pray that … in these very dark times of human division and viral confusion … we truly, humbly, and thankfully pray for God’s wisdom thru the truths espoused from God’s word above, … all of us seeking God’s peace and trusting that we’ll only find it when we seek His will, … and by finding His way, … thru His word as our “PeaceSpeaker.”
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for guarding our hearts with Your peace when we seek Your way thru Your word.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me today to seek out God’s peace by trusting His wisdom, found in His word. … Amen
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