Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 150
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Cade Thompson singing … Never Too Late … poignantly singing of how it’s never too late to receive and apply the blood of Christ to be reconciled to Him an reach out with His love and grace to others.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Corinthians 5:18-19 [NLT] …
18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation
… Once we are reconciled to God thru receiving His saving grace, we are called to share His reconciling grace with others.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 2Corinthians 5:11-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows fellow Christians that God’s healing grace is for any and all who desire to be reconciled to Him thru faith and that we have been giving the task of sharing His reconciling grace with others.
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Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:24 [NLT] …
23 “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 24 leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.
… Jesus commands that anyone who is offering up an offering up a sacrifice of praise to God must first be reconciled with other who’ve wronged that on before giving the offering.
Reference Passage: … John 1:12 [NLT] …
12 But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God.
… Anyone who believes on Christ as Lord AND Savior is justified and made a child of God.
Reference Passage : … Romans 5:1-2 [NLT] …
1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. 2 Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.
… Paul teaches that because we have been reconciled with God we can now look forward to sharing His saving grace with others.
Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:20-22[NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God has reconciled all who believe on Him as Lord to Himself thru His shed blood on the cross.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Poh Winn Collier … AT THIS LINK … tells about Franja Partisan Hospital (see photo), in a remote area of Slovenia, which stayed hidden from the Nazis all during WW2, treating wounded patients from both the Axis and Allied armies, reconciled to make no discrimination for treatment on the basis of one’s uniform.
And that’s the way Jesus is for all of us. By His shed blood on Calvary, He has reconciled ANYONE who believes on Him and is willing to receive His redeeming grace, no matter what our political beliefs, to become reconciled with His holiness and allowing us all to become Children of God. And as is sung in the linked song, it’s “never too late” to receive His grace; and I pray all reading here of done so and are willing to share His grace with others.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for shedding Your blood to reconcile me with Your holiness and make me a child of Your Father.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek to share your saving grace with anyone who needs You as their Savior. Amen
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