Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 146
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... … Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group, the Rhett Walker Band, singing … Love Like Jesus … poignantly singing of how we Christians must make our lives a love fest to live and love like Jesus.
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Highlight Passage: 1Corinthians 16:13-14 [ESV] …
3 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love.
… The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to be people of faith, showing off the love of Christ now living in us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Corinthians 16:10-14 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to treat others with the love of God.
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Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [ESV] …
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
… Jesus commands (and teaches) His disciples (and us) that they (we) are to love one another as He loves all His own called ones … to show others that we are His disciples.
Reference Passage: … John 15:13 [ESV] …
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
… Jesus, referring to what He was about to do for mankind, teaches about at the ultimate sign of one’s love for another.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:1-7 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, instructs all who would call themselves “CHRISTIAN” on the essence of Christlike, unconditional, sacrificial love.
Reference Passage: … 1John 4:16 [ESV] …
16 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
… God, thru John, show us that love more than emotions or words; … it is faith in action.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK … … uses the true story aboard the sinking US Ship, the SS Dorchester, sinking from a torpedo attack in the waters near Greenland in WW2; and the brave actions of four sailors who gave up their life jackets to save four other sailors, … also calming the rest of the men as the ship sunk and the men died bravely with many of their fellow sailors.
The story illustrates the essence of Godly, … AGAPE love, … like the kind Jesus talked about to His disciples the night before He became the greatest example of God’s love (see John 13 and 15 above), going to the cross and dying to save any/all who would believe on Him. And it is the kind of love that Paul wrote about in 1Corinthians 13 and John exhorted fellow Christians to live out in 1John 4.
And oh how I pray that all reading with me will join me in the pursuit of living and loving the way Jesus loved us all, … not just singing about it as Rhett Walker does in the linked song, but living it out in our relationships with others. Common fellow Christians, let’s show a little love out there today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me and my fellow Christians what love is really all about.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to go out and show off some real Godly love to others today. … Amen
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