Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 210
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Don Moen singing … Wonderful Peace … Poignantly singing of the eternal peace we find in our relationship with Christ, Who replaces darkness with light and enmity with peace.
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Highlight Passage Ephesians 2:14 [NIV] …
14 For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.
… Paul declares the truth about Christ’s finished work on the cross breaking down the wall between all people just as between the Jews and the Gentiles in those days.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Ephesians 2:11-22 [NIV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul to fellow Christians, that in Christ we find the peace that breaks down the enmity between people, as was the case between Gentiles and Jews in Jesus’ time on earth.
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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] …
3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!
… God, thru Isaiah, prophesies the peach which will come in and thru The Messiah.
Reference Passage: … John 14:27, 16:33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus proclaims to HIs disciples that they (and we) can - and will - find peace ONLY IN HIM.
Reference Passage: … Romans 5:1 [NLT] …
1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
… Paul teaches on the truth that we can - and will - only find our peace in our surrender and faith in what Christ did on the cross to free us from the shackles of sin.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:15 [NLT] …
15 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.
… Once again, Paul, declares the reality that we will only find peace in our world thru and in our relationship with Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Con Campbell, AT THIS LINK … relates an incident in history when a 4th century monk, named Telemachus, jumped into the gladiatorial arena to break up a battle-to-the-death between two gladiators. Seeing this, the patrons in the arena stoned the monk to death. And later, hearing of the courage of the monk and being touched by his spirit of peace, the Emperor Honorius decreed the end of 500 years of gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum.
And this historical story illustrates what Christ did by dying on the cross for mankind, … freeing us from the darkness of sin and breaking down the walls of enmity beween man and God and between peoples - like the social/cultural walls between jews and gentiles in Jesus’ day. And if we can find and follow Christ, … peace can be our cultural legacy today as well.
Right now we see and grieve over the cultural combat in our day … over racial and religious issues; and we will only see the end of this when our world is wiling jump into the arena of this gladiatorial combat and seek after - and follow - the peace Jesus Christ offers to all of mankind.
I pray we are peace-makers in Christ’s Name and for His glory today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving us the peace You offer to us when we surrender and claim what You brought to us on the cross, dear Lord.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do what we can to be peace makers today in Christ’s Name. … Amen
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