zBerry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 116
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matt Maher singing … Abide With Me … poignantly singing of choosing to walk with Christ abiding in our lives.
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Highlight Passage: Ephesians 4:22-24 [ESV] …
22 …to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
… According to God’s word, thru Paul, we are to CHOOSE to put off the old - corrupt - self and to walk in the newness of Christ.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Ephesians, Chapter 4 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians (us too!) to put off the old self and put on the newness of Christ.
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Reference Passage: … Romans 6:6 [ESV] …
6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
… In Christ we can now choose to put off the old nature, enslaved to sin, and walk in the newness of God’s Spirit.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:17 [ESV] …
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
… Paul again emphasizes that being born-again, in Christ, we no longer are a prisoner of the old ways of the flesh and of the world.
Reference 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.
… Now, being crucified of myself in Christ, I can now live by faith rather that by flesh.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:5-10 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
... God, thru Paul, teaches us that, now walking in the Spirit, we get to choose to put off the old, sinful, ways, and now live and walk in God’s Spirit.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Monica La Rose, AT THIS LINK … … inspired by the characters in Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, realized that she needed to quit judging characters in her life, until she could get to know them better.
That seemed to be almost an obsession for the Apostle Paul when we read the many highlight and support passages above. Paul had been radically broken, reborn, and transformed by Christ; and he wanted other Christians he knew - as well as all of us who learn of God’s transforming Spirit - to walk, once reborn in Christ, lives that are worthy of the truth that we now, in Christ, can choose to put off the old self and put on the newness of Christ (see photo).
And I pray that we do just that … today and everyday !!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me the empowering and enabling grace to walk in the newness of Your Spirit.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to walk, as the Apostle charged in Ephesians 4, in a manner worthy of our calling as Christians. … Amen
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