Thursday, August 18, 2022

August 18, 2022 … Good, Good Father …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 230 


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … Good Good Father … poignantly singing of how our God is ALWAYS a good, good Heavenly Father.  


Our good, GOOD Father ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Psalm 103:13 [NLT] … 

13 The LORD is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him.  

… David shows that his Heavenly Father is like a tender and compassionate father.  


Highlight Passage (Context): … Psalm 103:13-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

  King David shows that his God is like a good father to His children … ALWAYS there and ALWAYS compassionate.                                                                                                                

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:11-12 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

  God shows, thru Solomon, that we should revel in God’s discipline because of the Lord’s love for His children.  


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 shows just how much His loving Heavenly Father was willing to do to save His children from His wrath. 


Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

  Paul teaches truth that NOTHING can separate a born-again Christian from the love and compassionate grace of our Heavenly Father.  


Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] …  

My … For God has said, “ I will never fail you.  I will never abandon you.”  <

… The Author of Hebrews quotes from Deut 31:6 God’s promise never to leave His children.   


Reference Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] …  

See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him. 

… God, thru John, teaches why the world does not recognize born-again believers as children of God, … not knowing our Heavenly Father as God as we Christians do.            

                                                                                

My Devotional JournalToday's Our Daily Bread author, Marvin Williams … AT THIS LINK  tells how a father whose son had brain surgery, leaving a noticeable scar on the side of his head ached with compassion.  And telling his dad. the son felt like a monster, the father had a scar tattoo imprinted on his head to mirror his son’s scar and showing the father’s love and compassionate support for his son.  


And that’s the kind of compassionate love that our Heavenly Father lavishes on us, doesn’t He?  It’s the kind of love any good, good father would have for his son (see photo), isn’t it?  As Chris Tomlin sings in the linked song, it’s the kind of love our Heavenly Father has lavished on us by giving His Son to save us (see John 3:16 and Romans 8:38-39) 


And I pray that it’s the compassionate fatherly love all my readers experience when you read my words here each day.  If not, when you truly get to know Jesus as Lord and Savior, you will feel our Father’s love EVERY DAY!!!      


My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being my loving and compassionate Abba Father.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to lavish in the love and grace given to us daily by You, Lord, as our Heavenly Father.     … Amen


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