Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 97
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Michael W Smith singing … I Will Carry You … poignantly singing of how we, as disciples of Christ, must trust Jesus’s promise to carry us when we need His strength; and then to do all we can to do that for others when we can.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Genesis 24:19-20 [NLT] …
19 When she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels, too, until they have had enough to drink.” 20 So she quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw water for all his camels..
… Rebekah illustrates God’s call for us to serve others first by sharing her water with Abraham’s servant.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Genesis 24:12-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru the story of Rebekah serving Abraham’s servant, shows His call for all to show hospitality to others before serving our own selfish desires.
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Reference Passage: … John 13:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, in the upper room before His crucifixion, shows His Disciples, and all who would serve Him as Lord and Messiah, how to serve others before serving self by washing His disciples’ feet.
Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] …
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
… Jesus commands His Disciples in the upper room (and us now) to love one another to show that we follow King Jesus as LORD.
Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1, 15:1 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to become or be living sacrifices, the strong helping the weak, not just living to please our own selfish desires.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, exhorts Christians to take on the attitude of Christlike humility and serve others before self.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Huang … AT THIS LINK … shared a praise from the ODB author’s homeland in the Philippines, … “Kumain ka na ba?” (Have you eaten?), which showed the culture of hospitality in her native land, … a culture which certainly is compatible with that which was modeled by Jesus and shared by His disciples.
And then the ODB author shared the story of Rebekah in the highlight passage, where Rebekah unselfishly shared water with the servant of Abraham (see photo). And my thoughts immediately went to New Testament scriptures in the Book of John (see Reference passages above) where Jesus washed the feet of His Disciples in the Upper Room and then called on them to likewise share the Lord’s love with others.
I thought of the Apostle Paul’s strong call <b>(see Pauline Scriptures above)</b> for fellow Christians to emulate the humble model of Jesus to serve others before serving our own selfish desires.
I’m convicted; … how about you?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being our model of humble and unselfish service to/for others.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to live by Your call, Lord, for us to serve others before we serve ourselves. Amen
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