February 15, 2023 …His Way - The ONLY Way …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 46 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Clay Crosse and his friends, Bob Carlisle and Bebe Winans singing  … I Will Follow Christ … poignantly and powerfully singing of how doing life by follow the Lord’s way is really the ONLY WAY to go in life. 

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Highlight Passage: … Exodus [NLT] … 

2 “You must not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you are called to testify in a dispute, do not be swayed by the crowd to twist justice.   

… God’s commands, thru Moses, to avoid following the wayward ways of the crowd by seeking God’s justice for all .  …                                                                                                   

Highlight Passage (Context): … Exodus 23:1-9 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…  God, thru the Prophet, shows His promise of an everlasting love for those who remain faithful to Him.       

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 18:30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings of God’s way being the “perfect way.”    

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s call, thru Solomon, for us to trust in and follow God’s way as we go thru life.

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s ways may be way above our ways; but His ways should be our “ONE WAY”     

Reference Passage: … Luke 9:23 [NLT] … 

23 Then He said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.  

… Jesus teaching those who followed Him that it would be difficult, but necessary to deny our selfish ways and to follow Him.  

Reference Passage </u>: … Romans 12:2 [NLT] … </b>

<i>  2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect will.

… God’s call, thru Paul, for fellow Christians to avoid following the crowd (i.e., the world), but to seek to know and follow God’s will and His way in life.     .                                

                                                                             

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK …   illustrates how difficult it is to find the right way in life by using the 1957 movie, Twelve Angry Men,  where one man on a jury, in order to decide the fate of a man in a murder trial, took a stand  against the other 11 jury members n order to find Justice for the man accused of murder.                  

And if my readers are born-again Christians, as I am, we know - at times - how difficult it is in this world to do all we can to follow God’s way … THE right way.  So, I’m praying, as we take in the linked song and meditate on the Scriptures above, that today we’re not going to follow “the crowd;”  but rather do our best to seek and follow the will and way of our Lord.                         

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to avoid following my feelings or the world’s way; and to do all I can to follow Your way!                       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to seek to use Your “GPS,” Lord, which is Your word, … in order to follow You homeward today.    … Amen

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