October 19, 2021 … Doing What Is Right …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 292 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from the group Hillsong, leading in worship and singing … Walking In The Light< … joyfully singing of how We, as Christians, must walk in the light of Christ to be fruitful ambassadors of His love and grace.   

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Highlight Passage:  Galatians 5:22-23  [NLT] …  

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: <b>love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! 

… Paul teaches on the fruit of the Spirit, which is living by pursuing Godly virtue.                     

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Galatians 5:22-26 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paull exhorts fellow Christians toward Godly living.  

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 10:9  [NLT] …  

9 People with integrity walk safely, but those who follow crooked paths will be exposed.  

… Solomon teaches that those who seek and walk in Godly virtue and integrity will walk safely. 

Reference Passage: … John 15:1-8  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus shows that only by abiding in Him and living obediently for Him can we be fruitful in our lives. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:2 [NLT] … 

2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

… Paul exhorting fellow Christians to walk with Christlike virtue.

Reference Passage: … 2Peter 1:5-8  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Peter charges fellow Christians to pursue and live by God’s virtues.        

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK   … wrote about the question the media asked at the outset of the COVID19 pandemic as to whether our world would do what was necessary to protect others or become destructive in self interest.  

Well, in this world, without the virtues espoused in the linked song and the Scriptures above where mankind follows the Christian virtues espoused in the Fruit of the Spirit (see highlight passage), the answer would be a resounding NEGATIVE to that media challenge.  Really, … our human nature will ALWAYS lead us to sinful self-protection; and as Christ charged His disciple (that’s us too!) in John 15:1-8 only by abiding in and living for Christ can we experience the fruitfulness of Godly virtue in this world.  And what we see in this pandemic year has shown us that clearly.

So, I’m stopping to pray that we Christians - TODAY and TOMORROW - will do all we can to let God’s fruitfulness show forth in these perilous, pandemic, times.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your empowering grace to live in/for You today.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to seek to abide in God’s fruitfulness today.    … 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.