Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 240
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Lauren Daigle singing … Everything … poignantly singing of how Jesus is our EVERYTHING.
Really, ... Is HE???
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Highlight Passage: Revelation 22:12-13 [NLT] …
12 “Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
… John’s revelation shows to us that Jesus is the beginning and the end of everything for us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Revelation 22:12-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God reveals to us, as He did to John, that Jesus is coming (perhaps today) and He will be our everything, as He is - AND SHOULD BE - today.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 73:25 [NLT] …
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire You more than anything on earth.
… God, thru the Psalmist, shows us that we have nothing in this world,… in this life, … to seek but our Lord.
Reference Passage: … Acts 20:24 [NLT] …
24 But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
… Paul shares his witness that God is his - and our - everything.
Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Paul warns fellow Christians to avoid letting worldly, self-satisfying, pursuits to lure us away from becoming living … self-sacrifices …, giving our all for our Lord, King Jesus.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Paul declares strongly to fellow Christians how his relationship with Jesus had become EVERYTHING to him as Paul desired for others to see Christ in our lives.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:15-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… God’s Spirit, thru Paul’s poetic revelation that our God is supreme … our everything.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Xochitl Dixon, AT THIS LINK … tells of her husband and son, channel surfing one night and watching the end of old movies; … and when the ODB author asked why, her husband laughingly replied, … ”Who doesn’t love a good ending.”
And the best ending of all, … for all mankind, … is found at the end of John’s Revelation (see highlight passage), where the Lord declares that He, King Jesus is the “Alpha and Omega.”. And in the truth of those words, …the words of God, Himself, … we have all we need in this life, as born-again disciples of Christ, to move forward with faith and hope.
And the Apostle Paul discovered this, as we read in his proclamations to fellow Christians (see the Pauline Scriptures above) … witnessing that Jesus had become his EVERYTHING. The question for us from this… Is King Jesus our all-in-all, … our Alpha-and-Omega, … our EVERYTHING? Because if He is not, … if other things in this world have become more important that Jesus (see Romans 12:1-2), we need to surrender those things and do all we can to make seeking and serving Jesus our Alpha and Omega - Yes, as Lauren Daigle sings in the linked song, … OUR EVERYTHING!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your enabling grace to make You my all-in-all in life.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to surrender our everything to You, King Jesus. to make You our everything. … Amen
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