Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 188
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Lincoln Brewster singing … While I Wait … poignantly singing of how those of us who follow King Jesus can press on in tough times because of the hope we have in Christ.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … Psalm 27;14 [NLT] …
<i> 21 Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous.Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. </i>
… David shares God’s charge for him to trust God and wait for the Lord’s deliverance.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 27:11-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… David, being pursued by Saul, trusts and waits patiently, if not frantically, for God’s deliverance.
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Reference Passage … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, demands that true believers trust on God to lead us thru life in His way and in His timing.
Reference Passage: … Isaiah 40:31 [NLT] …
31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
… Isiah shows that those who trust and wait on God will be given the strength to deal with life.
Reference Passage: … Lamentation 3:25 [NLT] …
25 The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him.
… God, thru Jeremiah to God’s faithful, promises to be good to those who seek His way by waiting on Him to show us THE way.
Reference Passage: … Romans 5:3-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul leads other Christians to find hope and strength by being able to wait on God during tough times.
Reference Passage: … Ephesians 5:15-16 [NLT] …
15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to live wisely and use God’s time to follow Him and avoid living like fools.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, James Banks … AT THIS LINK … wrote that a leading economist, John Keynes, in1930, predicted that modern technology would one day in the future make for us humans to be working 5 hours a day, three days a week. Keynes wrote: “What will we do with all our spare time?”
However, we know now that this prediction was dead wrong. Because, here we are today with many wondrous, modern, advances in technology and with computerized “time management” skills (see photo), and we’re more frantic than ever as we Christians try to live wisely (as Paul exhorted in Eph 5:15-16, but seemingly falling farther and farther behind in life. Perhaps my readers feel these pressures and stresses today. I sure do!
But those of us who believe and trust in the truth of God’s word, find hope and peace in the admonitions of the linked song and the Scriptures above. Yes, trusting in God’s ways and waiting on Him to give us the strength to deal with this frantic life can be hard work; but it’s worth it;… because by living it and following and waiting on the Lord, we will see that He will lead us homeward to eternal life with Him. … Well worth the waiting!!!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … give me Your strength to help me wait on You.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to keep on keeping on by waiting on You, Lord. … 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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