Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 98
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … Home … poignantly singing of how we, as disciples of Christ, look forward - in the challenges of this world - to a permanent and protected home in Heaven.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 27:4 [NLT] …
4 The one thing I ask of the Lord — the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in His Temple.
… King David, even while being oppressed by enemies, sought after God’s protection, all the way to dreaming of being with the Lord and living in His Temple forever.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 27:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David, tho oppressed and sought by his enemies, confidently sings (i.e., prays) of being protected by His God as David seeks after a home forever in God’s Temple of glory. ===============
Reference Passage : … John 14:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, in the upper room before His crucifixion, promises them (and us now) that all who believe and follow Him as Messiah and Lord will have a home with Him forever in heaven.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 3:18-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows fellow Christians that there are those who will find only what their sins have for them here on earth; … but those who live for/in Christ await to be with Him in a glorious home in Heaven.
Reference Passage: … 1Peter 1:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Peter writes of God’s promise of glory in heaven to those who are born-again by their (our) faith in the resurrected Christ.
Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:3-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru His Revelation to John of the glorious home all believers in Christ will have in heaven.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg … AT THIS LINK … told of moving to a new home; and even during all the moving challenges, remembering that her permanent home was - and always will be - her home in heaven.
And that’s what King David sang about in His song about longing for heaven (see Highlight passage). It’s what Jesus promised His confused Disciples in the Upper Room (see John 14:1-3). It’s what Paul encouraged fellow Christians In Phil. 3:18-20. It’s what Peter wrote about to persecuted Christians in 1Peter 1:3-5. And it’s what God revealed to John in Revelation 21:3-4. And finally, it’s what any/all born-again Christians can count on, no matter what we’re going thru in this life; and that is a permanent and protected home with our Lord forever in heaven.
And recently I can identify with the feelings of the ODB author today as my wife and I went thru all the trials of moving to a new home. And there were times, during the move, that we were challenged by all the disruption in our lifestyle. But thru it all, we were comforted by the reality and the truth sung by Christ Tomlin in the linked song … that our real home - our permanent home - was waiting for us in our final move … to be with our Lord in heaven.
And today I pray that all reading here joyfully wait for that final move to be in our permanent and last home address in heaven.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for bringing me thru all that I encounter today, headed for my final home, … to be with You in heaven.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to know and praise You, Lord, for leading us to be with You in heaven. 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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