Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 288
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Tasha Layton singing … Look What You’ve Done … powerfully singing of how God’s grace transforms the lives of those who’re willing to repent and turn to follow His calling on our lives.
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Highlight Passage: Psalm 37:4 [NLT] …
4 Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires.
… When we trust and pursue God’s desires [i.e., HIs calling], He transforms us into what HE desires for us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 37:3-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David learns that trusting in God transforms us into what He calls us to become.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 63:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David’s surrender to seek God … no matter what!
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] …
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. <
… God, thru Solomon, shows us that when we depend on God’s guidance in life, He will show us THE way … His way.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 22:14 [NLT] …
14 [Jesus] … “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
… Jesus shows that many are called, but few are chosen to respond.
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.
… Paul shows fellow Christians that God will continue all the life of true Christians to transform our lives into images of Christlikeness.
Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 1:9 [NLT] …
9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was His plan from before the beginning of time—to show us His grace through Christ Jesus.
… God’s calling to salvation and sanctification is on all of us; but so few respond.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Eye, AT THIS LINK … wrote about a Pastor’s wife, … Agnes, … who tried to model her life after her mother-in-law, also a pastor’s wife. However, she came to realize that only when she surrendered to follow God’s unique calling and His unique God-given gifts would she - or could she - become the pastor’s wife God had called her to become.
We all have a unique calling on our lives from God, don’t we? (see photo) And He has given each of us unique talents/gifts to bring about God’s calling, … that unique calling to become whom God has called us to become. And as Tasha Layton sings in the linked song, I pray that we are are seeking and seeing God’s transforming grace work in our lives to remake us in our Lord’s image. And so, I also pray we meditate on the Scriptures above and see God do a work in transforming us into the unique - Christlike - person God has called us to become.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me and showing me the way to become more like You EVERY DAY.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to surrender and seek to become more like You, Lord, today and all days. … 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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