Dec 11, 2020 … Cleared and Cleansed

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 346 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from David Crowder singing … Forgiven …  powerfully singing of how our sins are forgiven by God’s grace and His shed blood on the cross

The fog of sin clears when the Son shines on it ... 

 

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Highlight Passage:   Isaiah 44:22 [ESV] ... 

22  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed yo 

…  God, thru Isaiah, promises to lift the sins from His faithful like the morning fog lifts when the sun breaks thru in the morning. 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Isaiah 44: 9-11, 21-23  [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God will forgive His remnant of faithful followers. 

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 103:11-12  [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God’s promise of His forgiving our sin - as far as the west is from the east.   

Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23  [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God’s promise of His faithfulness and mercies being new every morning.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 1:7, 4:32 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  In Christ, we are to forgive one another as Christ has forgiven us. 

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:7-9 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  When we’re willing to repent and confess our sins and forgive one another, God will cleanse us from our sin … any/all sin.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt, AT THIS LINK uses the imagery of the sun lifting the fog from a lake to illustrate God clearing the mist of sin from our lives when we’re willing to repent/confess our sins and to forgive others as God has forgiven us in Christ. 

I love that imagery of God being willing - and able - to shine down on His faithful, who are hidden in the fogginess of our sin, and clearing the mist of our selfishness with His grace.  And then, … when we shine the grace of our forgiveness on others, we become cleansed of the fog of our selfish sin of anger or bitterness as well. 

So, how must we seek the cleansing light of God’s grace to lift the fog of our sin today; … and whom must we willing to forgive, … allowing the warming grace of God’s forgiveness to shine thru and cleanse the fog of our bitterness?

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your Son cleansing our world of our sinful fog.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, to confess our fog of sin and let the light of Christ break thru to forgive us and cleanse us. … Amen

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Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.