July 12, 2021 … God’s Restoring Grace …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 193 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matthew West, singing  … Restored … powerfully singing about how our lives can be restored by our loving and grace giving Savior. 

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Highlight Passage:   Genesis 3:21  [NLT] …  

21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.    

… In spite of man’s sin and the curse on mankind, God’s grace provides Adam and Eve with garments of protection against the elements outside the Garden.    

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Genesis 3:17-24 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Mankind and the curse for Adam’s sin, becomes collateral damage for the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden.     

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Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s faithful mercy and grace are there for sinful mankind … every day ,,, and ALWAYS.   

Reference Passage: … Joel 2:25  [NLT] … 

25   The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,  the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts …  

… God’s promise, thru Joel, of God’s restoring grace to even His disobedient people. 

Reference Passage: … John 21:15-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus with compassion, mercy, and grace, restores Peter three times after Peter had denied Christ thrice before the crucifixion.  

Reference Passage: … Acts 3:19-21  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise of restoration to those who repent and turn from their sin to follow the One Who saved us, … King Jesus!   

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:9  [NLT] … 

9 But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. …  

… God’s promise of restoration and cleansing from our sin for any repentant believer.  

      

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Wittmer, AT THIS LINK   … relates a story of a a young man who became “collateral damage” and lost his job, thru no fault of his own, … showing that life can be unfair at times and bad things can happen to good people.  

It’s the way of life after Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden, isn’t it?  But don’t you just love what the Bible shows us about the restoring grace of our Lord, Whose mercies are new for the repentant follower of Christ, … Who shed His blood and gave Himself that we might be saved from the curse of our inheriting Adam’s sin.  

So, after my readers have taken in the powerful song of forgiving grace by Matthew West and you’ve meditated on the encouraging Scriptures above, let us all say a resounding "HALLELUJAH" to praise our Lord for His restoring love and grace. 

Again, say it with me … "HALLELUJAH !!"

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for making Your saving and sanctifying grace available to this old sinner today.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to declare our praise and thanks for our God’s restoring grace today . and then again tomorrow and forever.    … Amen

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