April 25, 2021 …  The Tree of Life … 

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 115 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kim Walker-Smith singing … Jesus Paid It All … poignantly singing of how God sacrificed His Son being nailed to the tree of life for all mankind. 

Bad decision ... 

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Highlight Passage:  Genesis 3:11b [ESV] …  

11 He [God] said, “… Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

… One very, VERY bad decision … 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Genesis 3:1-17 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Adam and Eve crash and burn in the garden by eating from The Tree of life. 

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Reference Passage: … Galatians 3:13 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—   

…  Jesus dies on “a tree” (i.e., the cross) to redeem mankind from our sin.   

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson, AT THIS LINK …   tells of the owner of a $300,000 McClaren auto which was totaled into a tree (see photo) by one bad decision. 

And the ODB entry then makes reference to the worst crash of all in the Garden of Eden when Eve, then Adam, crashed and totaled the garden and the lives of all mankind when they made the worst decision of all by eating of the tree of life.  And every time we make a sinful human decision we reflect that garden decision involving the tree of life.

But, PTL, there was another tree on which Jesus, as Kim Walker-Smith sings, “paid it all” on that tree at Calvary, … the tree which saved all who would believe in the One Who died there (see Gal 3:13).  And now we, who are born-again because of our faith in the Lord’s sacrifice, can look forward to eating from that tree of life (see Rev. 22:2, 14) when God’s garden is once again restored for the Lamb of God and all His friends. 

And I pray that’s all of us reading here today.   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, King Jesus, … for the tree of life, … from which all who long to be with our Savior will eat in Heaven. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to praise the Lord today for dying on a tree so that we can look forward to partaking from the “Tree of Life” in heaven with the Lamb of God.     … Amen

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Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.