Jan 4, 2021 … Living Worship

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 4 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Joy Williams singing … Do They See Jesus In Me …  poignantly singing of the desire to have others see Jesus in the way we live our lives … as a living sacrifice of worship to our Lord. 

Singing our worship in the car ... 

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Highlight Passage:   John 22:21 [ESV] ... 

1  Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!  2  Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into His presence with singing!  

…  Martha didn’t understand Jesus’ timing and His purposes in coming to them after Lazarus had died and was buried.   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 100 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmist sings of living a life of thankful and joyful worship to the Lord. 

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 12:5  [ESV] … 

5    “Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. 

…  Our lives should be lived like we are singing praises to God that all can see by the way we live. 

Reference Passage: … John 4:23  [ESV] … 

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.   

…  Jesus calls the Samaritan woman at the well (and to us) to live lives which worship God, the Father. 

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.

…  Paul calls on fellow Christians (that’s us too!) to live as if we are living sacrifices to the Lord. 

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:14-17 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Paul, calls Christians to live lives of thankful and humble worship to our Lord. 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon, AT THIS LINK relates a story of a fellow Christian who recognized the author from seeing her in a car singing worship songs joyfully to the Lord (as in the photo). 

And the ODB story illustrates how we should be living our lives as Joy Williams sings in the linked song and as the Scriptures above call on us to live our lives so that others can see Jesus living in and thru us.  The Apostle Paul (in the Rom. 12 and Col 3 scriptures above) called on fellow Christians to live as if our lives were living sacrifices to God, … lives which sing, … by our actions, … of our worship to the Lord. 

And so I pray that all reading with me here will “show off” God’s Spirit living in us by the way we live our lives today … tomorrow … and on into 2021.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for calling us to live lives of worship to You.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me, to live as if we’re singing songs of worship by the way we live and move and have our being today … and tomorrow!   … Amen

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