Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 194
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Stuart Townsend and Keith Getty singing … Jesus Is Lord poignantly singing of the truth that Jesus is our King and the LORD of our lives as born again Christians.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Mark 8:29 [NLT] …
29 Then He asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah.
… Peter declares that Jesus is the long awaited “Messiah” … “The Christ!”
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Mark 8:27-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus asks His disciples whom others and they say He is. ===============
Reference Passage: … John 1:17-18 [NLT] …
17 For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is Himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
… John declares that mankind has seen God when they saw Jesus.
Reference Passage: … John 10:22-33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus declares clearly to those following him, including the religious leaders, that God, the Father and He are one.
Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:6-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians (and us now) that Jesus set aside His glory to become a man but never relinquished His Lordship as Messiah.
Reference Passage: … 1John 5:20 [NLT] …
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and He is eternal life.
… John teaches fellow Christians that we can know God by knowing His Son, Jesus, Who is The Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread< author, Alyson Kieda… AT THIS LINK … … quotes from the writings of C.S. Lewis, a British former atheist who came to faith in Jesus as Lord, writing in his book, Mere Christianity … “Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.”
So, … if my readers today have taken in that quote from C.S. Lewis and have heard the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I ask you: … Whom do you say Jesus is? Because there’s only three choices for a man claiming to be God, as Jesus clearly did. To make such a claim, the Man, Jesus, had to have been either a liar, a lunatic, or The Lord.
Personally, I believe Him to be THE LORD; and I follow Him as such. How about you?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being MY LORD.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to decide to follow You, King Jesus, as our Lord … ALWAYS. … 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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