Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 197
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matthew West singing … Into the Light … powerfully singing about how we can seek and follow God’s light out of dark storms and into God’s saving light.
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Highlight Passage Psalm 43:3 [NLT] …
3 Send out Your light and Your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You live.
… The psalmist seeks God’s light to come out of his darkness
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 43 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Psalmist feels lost in the turmoil of persecution and seeks his God to give him the light to come out of his darkness.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:105 [NLT] …
Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
… King David sings about God’s word being a light for his (and our) path in life.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 9:2 [NLT] …
The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.
… Isaiah [700+ years before Christ comes] prophesies that One will come (i.e., The Messiah) to lead His faithful followers out of their darkness … into God’s light.
Reference Passage: … John 3:18-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows Nicodemus (and any seeker of God’s truth) how we must follow God’s truth and His call to righteousness to come out of the darkness and into God’s light.
Reference Passage: … John 8:12 [NLT] …
12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.”
… Jesus shows His followers that following Him will lead them (and us) out of the darkness and into His light.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 2:9 [NLT] …
9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for He called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
… Peter recognized that God’s calling oh His faithful people was to lead them [us] out of the darkness of sin, following Christ’s light, and onto God’s path of righteousness.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Lisa M Samra, AT THIS LINK … relates the story of young John F Kennedy Jr getting disoriented in a small plane in foggy weather and not using his instruments properly to lead him safely to his destination and avoiding the crash which led to his death.
It’s easy for us to get off the track in the storms and fogginess of life, isn’t it? But if we Christians seek and follow the light of God’s word (see photo), we can, as Matthew West sings in the linked song, come out of the fogginess of our sin nature and the darkness and confusion of our world … onto God’s path of righteous which clearly comes from God’s truth.
I pray we use God’s light today as our instrumentation and our “GPS” (I.e., God’s Positioning System) … to follow His light of truth out of our darkness. My friend(s), Christ is our Light … from His word; … let’s follow it today … and tomorrow too!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for shining Your light of truth on my path today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek out God’s light from Your word, Lord, which leads us out of our darkness and the storms of life and onto Your clear path. … 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.
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