April 14, 2022 … Light from the Darkness

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 104 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Lauren Daigle singing  … Light of the World … poignantly singing of how God has given us the light of Christ so that we can choose to walk out of the darkness of sin. 

Following the Light of Christ ... 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 13:30 [NLT] …  

30 So Judas left at once, going out into the night.  

… After Jesus reveals Judas’ intent to betray his Lord, the betrayer chooses to walk away from the Light of the world into the darkness of night.              

Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 13:21-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… In the upper room the night of His betrayal, Jesus reveals that Judas would be the one to betray Him.                                                              

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 27:1a [NLT] … 

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—so why should I be afraid?. 

… King David realized and sang of His God being his light and protection.

Reference Passage: … John 8:12, 12:46 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches that He is the light of the world and all who follow His light will never have to walk in darkness. 

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 4:6 [NLT] … 

6 For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.  

… Paul teaches of Christians being giving the light of Christ shining the hearts of born-again Christians.    

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:5-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s word, thru John, shows that if we live in/for the light Jesus gives us to follow as Christians, we will be cleansed of sin.  

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK …  tells of Ellie Wiesel’s book, Night, where Wiesel writes of the darkness of the holocaust, especially in the light of comparing that dark time in history with the light and deliverance experienced by God’s people when God sent Moses to deliver the Jews from the holocaust and darkness of slavery in Egypt.  

And then the ODB author wrote of another time of horrible darkness as Jesus was betrayed and marched to the cross to be crucified, … a time which became the darkest time in human history; and yet it was an event which also became the brightest moment in our human history as well, … when the Light of Christ’s love and grace defeated the darkness of sin and death.  

Oh how I pray that all who read my words right now are following the Light of Christ, as you meditate on the Scriptures above and walk out of and away from the darkness of our sin nature, … experiencing the cleansing from our sin that we receive when we’re willing to confess and repent of our sin and live in the Light of our Lord’s resurrection power.  

So, let us celebrate living in the Light given to us to us by King Jesus’ blood as we celebrate  Good Friday and Easter glory at this time in our lives.     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving us Your light to follow.           

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to seek and follow Your Light, Lord, so that we can come out of our own darkness, having been cleansed by Your blood.       Amen 

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