Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 58
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Robin Mark singing … All to Jesus I Surrender… poignantly singing of how, as Christians, we must surrender our all to follow Jesus.
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Highlight Passage: Galatians 2:20 [ESV] ...
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
… Paul testifies as to his personal 100% surrender in faith to Christ, the Son of God.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Galatians 2:14-21 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians (and us) what it takes for be surrendered disciples of Christ.
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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows that we, as God’s children, must trust in the Lord with ALL our hearts … 100% surrender.
Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [ESV] …
23 And He said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
… Jesus to his followers on what it takes to be His disciple.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 9:6 [ESV] …
6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
… Paul teaches God’s law of reciprocity … that we receive His providence to the degree what we’re willing to give to/for Him - i.e., we reap what we sow.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 12:9 [ESV] …
9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
… Paul remembered and taught Jesus’ truth that His empowering grace is enough to deal with anything in life … IF … we’re willing to humbly surrender to receive it.
<b><u>Reference Passage</u>: … 1Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] … </b>
<i> 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting ALL your anxieties on him, because He cares for you.</i>
… Another Apostle, … Peter … also shows that we must be will to surrender ALL our anxieties to God’s throne of Grace.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Glenn Packiam, AT THIS LINK … tells of the famous 19th century wire walker, Charles Blondin, who would walk the Niagara Falls on a wire with someone on his back [see photo], with the instructions that the man on his back must be 100% still for Blondin to safely walk the wire over the Falls.
There was also a famous story that Blondin would offer to push anyone in the audience across the wire in a wheelbarrow; … but no one was willing to get in the wheelbarrow because it took a 100% surrender of life to do so. And I think the comparison is obvious to the teachings of the scriptures above about becoming a disciple of Christ.
We have to be willing to get in our Lord’s wheelbarrow and allow Him to push us - by his empowering grace - across the falls of life, don’t we? It’s like Robin Mark sings in the linked song; and I pray that all reading here with me are willing to do the 100% surrender gig as we get in Jesus’ wheelbarrow today … and tomorrow.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for taking me across the falls of life as You take me thru this life.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to get in Jesus’ wheelbarrow today. … Amen
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