January 3, 2022 … Never Ending Grace …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 3 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Lauren Daigle singing … I Will Trust In You … poignantly singing of how we, as Christians, can ALWAYS rely on God’s love. 

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Highlight Passage: …  Psalm 145:20a [NLT] …  

 20a The Lord protects ALL THOSE who love Him, …  

… David sings of how God’s love extends to ALL who love the Lord.    

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 145:8-20 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… David sings of God’s unending love for us and how He watches over those who love Him.       ===============                                              .                   

Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 31:6 [NLT] … 

6 So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you.  He will neither fail you nor abandon you. 

… God’s Old Testament promise, thru Moses to HIs people, that the Lord would never leave them more forsake them - NO MATTER WHAT!!   

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...  

… God, thru Solomon shows that we can ALWAYS trust in God’s love and grace to lead us; but we have to choose to trust in Him.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 23:20b [NLT] …  

20b  “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”” 

… Jesus’s promise to all who surrender to follow Him - that He would be (and is) with us ALWAYS.  

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...

…God, thru Paul, promises to always be there to shower His love on us as born-again believers. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:6-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...  

…God, thru Peter, promises His oppressed believers that we can trust in God’s love and grace … ALWAYS!!! 

          

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, James Banks, AT THIS LINK …  tells of a friend relating a story about her grandfather … who always put away his favorite pocket watch (see photo) before taking the friend out for a special time together.  And when asked why, the grandfather, told the author’s friend, “Because I want you to know how important my moments with you are to me. I just want to be with you and let time go by.”    

What a good life picture of how much God loves and cares for His beloved family.  And if any of my readers have taken in the linked song and mediated on the Scriptures above, I pray, … into this new year, … we all grasp and live under the truth that NOTHING can separate us from God’s love; and we can ALWAYS trust and partake of His enabling and empowering grace … ANYTIME we need it.                            

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being there with Your love and grace … today and ANY DAY I need it.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to trust that Your empowering grace, Lord, is there for us as we need it today - and tomorrow.    … 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 can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.