Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 72
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Passion singing … More Like Jesus … poignantly singing of how we as Christ’s disciple need to live more like Him day-by-day.
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Highlight Passage: … Colossians 3:13 [NLT] …
13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
… We Christians are to care for and forgive one another just as Christ has forgiven us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Colossians 3:12-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians (and that’s us too) to do all we can to take on the attitude of Christlikeness, forgiving one another as Christ forgave us.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Corinthians 11:1 [NLT] …
1 And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
… Paul had great confidence that his followers could - and should - imitate him because he was doing all he could to imitate His Lord.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Ephesians 5:1-2 [NLT] …
1 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered Himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
… Paul shows fellow Christian that we should imitate Christ as we make all the choices in our lives.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Peter 2:21 [NLT] …
21 For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in His steps..
… Peter also challenged fellow Christians to live like Christ, even if it meant suffering for His glory.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1John 2:6 [NLT] …
6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.
… The Apostle John also exhorted fellow Christians to live their (our) lives as Jesus did.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Cindy Hess Kasper, … AT THIS LINK … tells of the famous British warrior, Oliver Cromwell, in having his portrait painted (see photo), told the artist, … “You must paint me just as I am—warts and all—or I won’t pay you.”
And likely that’s where the English expression “warts-and-all” came from, … expressing the desire for someone to be accepted just as they are. And isn’t that the way Jesus, as Savior, accepts any and all who believe on Him and come to surrender to His Lordship - “warts-and-all?" Yes, of course, it is! However, that’s not the way we born-again Christians are to leave our lives, is it?
No, … over and over again in God’s word (see Scriptures above), we, who claim to be disciples of Christ, are called to model our lives on Christlikeness. Paul (in 1Cor 11:1) strongly exhorted fellow Christians to imitate the way he walked in life because Paul knew that He was doing all he could to live like Christ. And other Scripture writers besides Paul, like Peter and John (see 1Peter 2 and 1John2 above), exhorted fellow Christians to live - WARTS-AND-ALL - following the Lord’s walk more closely.
Personally, I’m convicted by today’s ODB entry to do more to follow Christ; … how about you?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me the way to walk each day, … following You.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can today to follow Your walk, Lord. 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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