Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 127
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Celine Dion singing … A Mother’s Prayer … poignantly singing of a mother’s prayer for her child.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Thessalonians 2:7 [NLT] …
7 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
… Paul, to fellow Christians, likens his love for them to be like the love of a nursing mother to her child.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … 1Thessalonians 2:1-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, in reminiscing of his love for fellow Christians, compares his love to that of a mother caring for her child.
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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 66:12-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Isaiah, promises His protective love for His faithful will be like the love of a mother for her child.
Reference Passage: … John 3:16 [NLT] …
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
… Jesus describes for us the sacrificial love of the Heavenly Father.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, describes love, like that of God, that we should express to one another.
Reference Passage: … 1John 3:16 [NLT] …
16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.
… God, thru the Apostle John, shows that God has shown us how to love others by giving His eternal love to us by dying for us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Wittmer … AT THIS LINK … relates a story about a mother raising her child during the depression where the only meat they would get to eat would be when her husband brought home a squirrel he had killed. And the mom would ask for the head of the squirrel, saying that it had the best meat. But we know there was no meat on the head of the boiled animal. She was just making sure that her kids had all the meat, showing the love of a mother for her children.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day here in the USA; and we honor the love of our mothers for those of us who were blessed to be raised by mothers like the one in the ODB story. And in today’s Pauline letter to fellow Christians (see highlight passage), the Apostle Paul compared his love for his dear fellow believers (and us) to that of a mother’s love for her child (see photo). And that is the kind of love God’s word (see Scriptures above) calls us to love others, … like the sacrificial motherly love God has for and gives to His children.
Oh, how I hope all reading with me have experienced the love of a mom and will go out today to share that kind of love with others, … especially to our family and friends.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for sharing Your love with me everyday.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … today to share the mother-like love of our God with others. 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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