June 11, 2021 … Unseen - All-Caring God …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 162 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Jaron and Katherine Kamin singing … Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise … poignantly singing of how we, as disciples of Christ, have access to and all-knowing, all-caring, .. yet, unseen God. 

 

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Highlight Passage:  1Peter 1:8-9 [ESV] …  

8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 

… Peter writes of the reality of salvation coming from our faith in an unseen, yet all-caring God, our Lord and Savior, King Jesus.           

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Peter 1:3-9 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Peter, shows that our faith in an unseen God produces salvation.  

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Reference Passage: … John 1:18 [ESV] … 

18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, Who is at the Father's side, He  [Jesus] has made Him [the Father] known. </i> 

… John writes of Jesus allowing us to know and have faith in our unseen God, the Father, thru our faith in God, the Son. 

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 11:1, 6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK ... 

… God shows the reality of having faith in an unseen and yet, … all caring … God.  

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] … 

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, 7 <b>casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you. 

… Peter shows that we can humbly bring our cares to an unseen, yet all-caring God.

Reference Passage</u>: … 1John 4:12 [ESV] … 

18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, Who is at the Father's side, He has made Him known.  

… John writes truth about our Lord, Jesus, making our unseen God known to us thru His caring love for us.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mart DeHaan, AT THIS LINK  … writes of an elderly lady friend with dementia, who in a moment of lucidity wrote poignantly of looking out of her window at a lake in Michigan and writing in a notepad so clearly about her faith in God.  Please use the link above to read what she wrote.   

And when even a demented soul can have faith in an unseen God, … the God sung about in the linked song, … we who have our full mental faculties ought to be able to find the brain power to have faith and follow our unseen, yet all-knowing and all-caring God (see the scriptures above).  Because if we don’t, we’re lost in this very visible, but uncaring world. 

So, I pray today that all us, who claim to be followers of Christ, can - AND WILL - bolster our faith in our all-knowing and all-seeing God, by relying on our faith in the One Who made God, the Father, known to us; and that is our faith in His Son, Jesus, Who died on a cross so that we could, thru our faith in Him, come to know the unseen, but all-caring Father. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me the faith in Your Father thru my faith in You, His Son.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to humbly bring all our cares to You, Lord, even if we can’t see You, … yet knowing that You hear us and care for all of our needs. .  … Amen

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