Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 207
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Joni Mitchell singing … Woodstock … hauntingly singing about we have walked away from God’s garden and desire to go back to Him in HIs garden. … And THEN TO THIS LINK to hear Rosemary Siemens singing InThe Garden, which describes what we Christians will be doing when we’re returned to the garden-like glory of heaven.
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Highlight Passage: … Genesis 3:8 [NLT] …
8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
… Adam and Eve knew they had betrayed God and hid from Him in His Garden.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Genesis 3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Adam and Eve give up their perfect walk with God to fall to Satan’s temptation and are expelled from God’s garden. ===============
Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:11-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God creates the perfect place for mankind to be with Him forever.
Reference Passage: … Genesis 2:15 [NLT] …
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
… God placed mankind, His crowning creation, in the Garden of Eden to be with Him.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 58:11 [NLT] …
11 The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.
… It is God’s plan to return His faithful remnant to His care and garden of goodness forever.
Reference Passage: … John 15:5-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus promises His disciples - i.e., any who surrender to follow Him - that if they remain and abide in Him they will be fruitful in life.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK … tells of a song, written and sung by Joni Mitchell (see first link above), where Joni sings of us all trying to return to a simpler, more peaceful, life, … like that experienced by Adam and Eve in God’s garden.
And those of us who know what Christ did for us sinners and have become born-again believers, can rest in the peace of God’s promise that we will one day return to a place much like that garden experienced by Adam and Eve before they were expelled from God’s garden (see photo); and we will once again walk with our Lord in heaven as sung by the second linked song above.
Oh how I pray that all reading with me here KNOW Jesus as our Savior and we’re looking to one day return to walk with Him in His garden of glory.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing us the way to Your peace and garden-like glory forever.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek out the peace of Your garden, Lord, one day, once again, to walk with You in glory. … Amen
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