September 5, 2021 … Choosing His Way …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 248 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in a song  and lyrics from Don Moen who sings … God Will Make A Way … poignantly singing of how we, who are in Christ, must know that God will  ALWAYS make a way that we can follow Him.  

We get to choose !! 

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Highlight Passage:  Jeremiah 3:22 …  [NLT] …  

22 “My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.”  … “Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply, … “for You are the Lord our God.  

… God calls His chosen people back to follow Him to glory.                   

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Jeremiah 3:11-15, 22 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, with His eternally forgiving heart, calls His wayward children to come back and follow His ways home.     

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Reference Passage: … Joshua 24:15 [NLT] … 

15 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”  

…Joshua challenges God’s people to CHOOSE to follow the Lord.  

Reference Passage: … Psalm 139:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… David’s prayer of repentance - which should be our prayer -  with a desire to follow God’s ways rather than our own.   

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 53:6 [NLT] … 

6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away,  We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all. 

… We can always choose to follow His ways rather than our own.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [NLT] …

23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me. 

… Jesus calls any disciples to deny our way and to follow His.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Leslie Koh, AT THIS LINK  … tells of a professor in college who had a way of showing his students how to study for final exams, … which all of his students learned about and follow to insure better scores on the final exams.  

  

And God has given us - thru His word - THE WAY … HIS WAY - to follow Him all the way to glory.    So, … as Joshua and Jesus put the question to God’s people in their day (see Joshua 24:15 and Luke 9:23), we get to choose TODAY which way we’re going to follow … God’s way or our own.  Which way will we choose?    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me the way to go home.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to choose to follow Your way today.  … Amen 

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