Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 28
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Dionne Warwick singing … What the World Needs Now … poignantly singing how the world still needs God’s love being doled out by everyone … always … to overcome the injustice and division in the world.
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Highlight Passage: Amos 5:24 [ESV] ...
24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
… Justice and righteousness are shown to God when we have love in our hearts for God and others.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Amos 5:21-24 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Amos, shows that sacrifices to God are meaningless unless their is love and justice in the hearts of those who sacrifice.
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Reference Passage: … John 13:34-45 [ESV] ...
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
… Jesus teaching His disciples that share His love for others when we show love/grace to others.
Reference Passage: … Romans 12:10 [ESV] ...
10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
… Paul exhorted fellow Christians to do all we can to share God’s love with one another.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Paul expounds on what Christlike love looks like in the way we live our lives for others.
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:18 [ESV] ...
18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
… John exhorts other Christians to SHOW our love in the way we live our lives.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Lisa M Samra, AT THIS LINK uses the Contemplative Court in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture [see photo], which illustrates Dr. Martin Luther King’s quote taken from Amos 5 (see highlight passage), charging all to show love and justice to all … ALWAYS!
And how often do we have to read that charge, repeated so often in God’s word (see Scriptures above), before we internalize it and then live out God’s call for His children to show our love for Him by being obedient to God’s truth and doing all we can to out do each other in showing love and grace for one another. And I pray that is our goal today … and every day!!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving all of Your love to show us how to share that grace in the way we treat others.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, … to take every opportunity today - and tomorrow - to share God’s love and grace with others. … Amen
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