Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 360
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Michael W Smith singing … Friends … poignantly singing of how vital it is to stay close to our friends … FOREVER.
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Highlight Passage: … Matthew 5:25a [NLT] …
25 “When you are on the way to court with your adversary, settle your differences quickly. …
… Jesus exhorts His followers to resolve their differences ASAP, … before it gets to the courts.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Matthew 5:21-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus teaches His followers on reconciling differences between believers quickly.
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Reference Passage</u>: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus reteaches His disciples God’s commandment to love one another so that others can see the love of Christ being shared among fellow Christians.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:26-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians not to let anger impede resolving differences between each other.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 12:14-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, commands fellow Christians to resolve differences and live in peace.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Arthur Jackson, AT THIS LINK … tells of two men, Simon and Geoffrey, former friends in Kenya whose friendship had become fractured by unresolved differences. Then as Simon decided to go to Geoffrey’s mother’s funeral, they came together and resolved their differences,… hugged <b>(see photo)</b>, and became friends again.
Real friendships are so precious, aren’t they? And that’s why Jesus and other scripture writers, like Paul, exhorted Christians to reconcile differences ASAP (see Scriptures above), especially before those differences reached the courts. As the ODB story above and Michael W Smith’s song relate, … we need to do all we can as friends to resolve our differences, especially
between us Christians, so that others can see the love of God being lived out in Christian friendships.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for dying to allow us to come together in peace to show the world Your love and Your grace.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can to resolve any differences between us as Christian friends so that God’s love can be lived out and exhibited in our friendships. … 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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