Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 300
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Laura Story singing her song … Blessings … poignantly singing of how we often have trouble seeing God’s blessings when they are seen thru the tears of suffering.
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Reference Passage: … Job 42:7 [NLT] …
7 After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.
… God shows anger to those who had misled Job with their lack of faith in God’s intent.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Job 42:1-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… After Job repents of his lack of faith, God shows His anger at the three friends who in their lack of faith in God had misguided Job about God’s intent.
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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 we must trust in the Lord even thru the tears of suffering.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus invites any and all who truly believe in Him to yoke ourselves to His power in our times of weakness.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 12:9-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus taught Paul that His empowering grace was sufficient for Paul (and us) in times of our suffering and weakness.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:10 [NLT] …
10 In His kindness God called you to share in His eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, He will restore, support, and strengthen you, and He will place you on a firm foundation.
… Peter strongly teaches of God’s grace and His strength being there for us … even in times of suffering.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK … writes with sadness about a woman who had done all she could thru prayer in her suffering with cancer, but she still felt that she must have sinned badly to incur the suffering she was going thru.
In our time of suffering, as did Job, we may relent to the lie that our sinfulness or selfishness is the cause of our suffering. But, as we read in the highlight passage, Job had to go thru a great deal of suffering before he came to the realization that his suffering had NOTHING to do with any past sin as three of Job’s friends counseled him.
In the midst of suffering and pain (see photo), it can be so difficult to see God’s blessing of His empowering grace. For the last six months I’ve been dealing with severe/chronic sciatic pain which at times has been debilitating. And I admit, in the throws of all my suffering, it was very difficult to see and have faith in the truths of the reference Scriptures above and in Laura Story’s song. So, I’m praying this morning, for me … and any reading with me, that we hold onto Your strength, Lord, and do all we can to seek out Your empowering grace to deal with our suffering.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your strength to deal with my pain.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to remember that any of us can hold onto Your empowering grace, Lord, when we are suffering. … Amen
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