Sunday, December 11, 2022

December 11, 2022 … Clinging To God’s Love …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 345 


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics of the group Sovereign Grace singing … Cling to Christ … powerfully singing about how in our humanity we Christians must cling to Christ and share that love with others. 



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Highlight Passage: …Romans 12:9 [NLT] …  

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.   

… Paul charges fellow Christians to cling tightly to God’s love and share it with others by the way we live.                                                                        


Highlight Passage (Context): … Romans 12:9-13 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches and exhorts fellow Christians to cling tightly to God’s love and His goodness      

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 22:38-39 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

  Jesus declares, from God’s truth in Deut. 6:5, just how far we must go to share God’s love with others.   


Reference Passage: … Matthew 13:12-17 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

  Jesus demonstrates how far we must go to share the Love of God to others by washing the feet of His Disciples.   


Reference Passage: … Romans 8:38 [NLT] … 

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

  The Apostle Paul teaches just how far God’s love goes in the life of a born-again Christians so that we can carry that love to plant it in the hearts of others. 


Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK

  Paul shows fellow Christians that we take on the attitude of Christ when we share persistently, His love by setting aside ourselves to help others.    ,

                                                                             

My Devotional JournalToday's Our Daily Bread author, Katara Patton … AT THIS LINK  tells of walking thru a field to get from their car to their house, often picking up cockleburs (see photo), … those clingy seeds which attach themselves to clothing so that the seeds can travel to disperse themselves to other fertile soils.                 


It’s a pertinent life picture of how - and why - God’s Spirit attaches His love to the hearts of  born-again believers so that we can carry his seeds of love to others.  And the linked song sings, and the Scriptures above teach, that we must cling ourselves to God’s love in order to carry that love to others.  Will you join me today to do what we can to carry God’s clinging love to those who need it?          


My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your clinging love which attaches to me to carry it to others.           

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to carry Your clinging love, Lord, to plant it deep in the lives of others.      Amen


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1 comment:

Kjetil said...

Amen...we pray!
Kjetil