Dec 27, 2020 … Light In Darkness

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 362 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from David Crowder singing … O Come O Come Emmanuel …  poignantly singing the old hymns of God’s people in Israel calling for God’s protective love and grace in times of darkness.

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Highlight Passage:   Psalm 103:8 [ESV] ... 

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 

…  God’s love, mercy, and grace is always there for us.

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 103:1-14 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… King David’s song for God’s people to honor God’s strength and light ALWAYS being there and delivering His people out of the darkness.  

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

…  God’s love and mercy never cease; … they are new for us every morning with the rising of His Son. 

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

…   Solomon encouraging his son to trust God to show us the way … no matter how dark it seems!! …

Reference Passage: …1 Corinthians 10:13 [ESV] ... 

13 No temptation [also translated “trial” or “trouble”] has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 

…  Paul encourages fellow Christians to trust that God will ALWAYS be there to lead His faithful through the darkness and trials of life.   

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 12:9-10 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   Paul learned from Jesus, Himself, that God’s grace is ALWAYS sufficient to give us His strength when we’re feeling weak. 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Glenn Packiam, AT THIS LINK  tells of his family gathering in a power outage at night, during a storm, to light candles in the kitchen and sing a song together, … belaying their fears.  

Each year, our church has a candle-lighting at the end of our Christmas eve service (see photo), usually singing the old hymn (as does David Crowder linked above),  O Come O Come Emmanuel.   And for some reason in the midst of the darkness of our 2020 pandemic this year, it seemed unusually uplifting and encouraging.  

It’s like King David wrote in the highlight passage, as well as the Scriptures above, which repeatedly remind us that God’s love, mercy, and grace are never-ending and His strength and power are always there for His faithful when we trust Him to light the way out of our darkness. 

So, … join me to trust in prayer that our God is going to lead us out of these current dark times into His eternal light of love.   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for showing me Your light thru Your word each morning. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, to bask in God’s ever present, … everlasting, … light and love.  … Amen

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