Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 207
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Selah singing … How Deep the Father’s Love For Us … Poignantly singing of how God shows His love for us in spite of our sinfulness, …with His love growing in us to share with others.
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Highlight Passage: John 13:34 [NIV] …
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
… Jesus commands His beloved disciples to show love for one another just as He, Jesus, shows His love for all.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 13:34-35 [NIV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus commands His disciples to love one another to and show others the love of God. ==============
Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:6 [NLT] …
32 God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.”
… Jesus blesses those who seek after the righteousness that God plants in us as born-again followers of Christ.
Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] …
8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
… God shows HIs ultimate and eternal love for us, giving up His Son for us even though we were (and are) sinners.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] …
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: LOVE, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
… God’s love and fruitfulness is on display in the lives of true, born-again, Christians.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] …
6 And I am certain that God, Who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
… God, thru Paul, shows Christians how God’s work of love will bloom in the life of the surrendered believer until Jesus returns.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Patricia Raybon, AT THIS LINK … relates a story of making a show of joy in receiving a gift from her daughter of tulip bulbs, even tho the ODB author was not particularly fond of tulips, which she thought often don’t bloom or die quickly after the do bloom. But the ODB author realized that the gift was given in love; and later when the tulips bloomed (see photo) the author remembered how God’s love has been planted in all true Christians to bloom in us and show off the love of God to others.
And as the group Selah sings in the linked song and the Scriptures above express, … we realize how deep the Father’s love is toward even us sinners; … that He would give up His Son to die for us and to live and grow in the hearts of all Who receive His love. And that love, which is a fruit of HIs Spirit, will continue to grow and bloom in Christians to show God’s love to any/all who would receive that love from Him thru us.
So, I pray that any/all who’re reading here with me today, will go forth and show off God’s love thru the way we live and to reach out and share Christ’s love with others
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for planting Your love in my heart to share with someone today.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to make choices today that show off Your love for us sinners. … Amen
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