April 24, 2021 …  His Way - The Only Way … 

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 114 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Don Moen singing … God Will Make A Way … poignantly singing of how God leads His own in life to follow His way rather than our own or the ways of the world.   

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Highlight Passage:  Daniel 2:19-20  [ESV] …  

9 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.“ 

… We are charged by God to comfort others even before we would look out for our own interests. 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Daniel 1:11-16, 2:19-20 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Daniel, being obedient to God’s way, shows the Babylonians that the Lord’s way is the best way … ALWAYS! 

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:105 [ESV] … 

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.    

…  Following God’s will and His way from His word is the really the only way to go in life. 

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

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.  

…  Solomon shows that following God’s way and avoiding our own way is ONLY WAY to go in life. 

Reference Passage: … John 14:6 [ESV] … 

11 Jesus said … , “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. …”  

… Jesus clearly shows that His way is the ONLY WAY.   

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:2  [ESV] …  

2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

… God, thru Paul, shows us to avoid the ways of the world in order to better follow His way.    

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [ESV] …  

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 

… God has given us His word - i.e., Scripture - to follow His way in this life.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK …  tells of her granddaughter playing college volleyball and learning not to let any one point deter her from focusing on what she needed to do to win.  

And then the ODB author compared that focus with that of Daniel and his three young Jewish friends when they were in Babylonian captivity (see highlight passage).  Those boys learned to hold on to God’s ways and to avoid letting the world dictate which way they should go in life. And if you believe in what Don Moen sings in the linked song and all of the Scriptures quoted above, we Christians must know that God’s way is ALWAYS the best way; and His word is ALWAYS the best way to know how to find God’s will and to follow His ways. 

So, … I pray today that we’re taking up and using God’s perfect “GPS” (“God’s Positioning System” - i.e.,… His word) and being obedient to let God lead us in His way .  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, King Jesus, … for giving us Your “GPS” to follow in life.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to take up and follow Your will and Your way from Your word  … all day - EVERY DAY!!      … Amen

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