Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 322
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from the group Hillsong Worship singing … Cry Of The Broken … poignantly singing of how we how we, as born-again Christians, come to our Lord for His healing and restoring grace.
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Highlight Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] …
10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
… We are created anew by God’s saving/sanctifying grace to fulfill God’s purpose for our lives. ===============
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Ephesians 2:1-10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
…God, thru Paul, shares the reality of His saving and healing grace.
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Reference Passage: … Psalm 34:18 [NLT] …
18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
… King David sings of God healing the spirits of the brokenhearted.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 18:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… God shows Jeremiah His willingness to start over with God’s broken chosen and remake them as He intends.
Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus shows His willingness to heal the brokenness of our human condition.
Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 1:5 [NLT] …
5 For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.
…Paul also shows fellow Christians God’s ability to give comfort and healing to those who suffer for Christ’s sake.
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 declares his faith that our God is reworking His beloved and chosen into His own image..
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Anne Cetas, AT THIS LINK … tells of a couple shopping for pottery and finding a piece which was cracked and purposely buying it because they felt it represented how Christ desires to use us in our brokenness for His glory.
I’ve always been interested in the Japanese art form of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is mended with gold into an art form … where brokenness is repaired and revalued into a useable and valuable piece of art. (See photo) And most certainly that an apt picture of what our Lord does for us broken-down sinners. … in making us over - from our brokenness - into reusable and even artful pieces of pottery for God’s glory.
Oh, I pray that all with me here take in the linked song and Scriptures above to go into this week of Thanksgiving ahead with thankful hearts for our King, Jesus, Who is remaking us into His image day-by-day-by-day.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for making me over into Your image daily, Lord.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to willingly go to Your Potter’s wheel, Lord, to be remade into Your image. … Amen
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