February 22, 2024 … Walking in His Shoes

February 22, 2024 … Walking in His Shoes  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Elvis Presley singing … Walk A Mile In My Shoes …  Elvis sings of how we must walk in someone else’s shoes before judging them.  

Walking in the Queen's shoes ... 

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Highlight Passage: …Colossians 3:12 [NLT] … 

12 Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.              

… God’s promise to His faithful Church of opening a door to heaven which cannot be shut.          

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Colossians 3:8-17 … USE THIS LINK … 

The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to put on the character traits of Christlikeness, given to born-again believers as fruits of 

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 1:1-3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Psalmist sings of the joys of those who follow God’s ways by walking in His truth. 

Reference Passage: … Micah 6:8 [NLT] …  

8 No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.  

… God’s Prophet, Micah, relays God’s call for believers to walk humbly with our God.    

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 5:17 [NLT] …  

17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!    

… Paul assures fellow Christians (and us) that in Christ we walk with a new Spirit of Christlikeness.

Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paull also describes what it’s like to walk in the Spirit and become more like Christ in our walk, reflecting the character of our Lord.       .               

Reference Passage: … Colossians 2:6 [NLT] …  

6 And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him. 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to follow the Lord wherever we walk in life.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, James Banks -  AT THIS LINK -  tells how the servant who dressed Queen Elizabeth for the last two decades of her reign had the same shoe size as the Queen and would walk in her new shoes (see photo) for miles to break them in and make them more comfortable for the Queen to stand at various ceremonies. 

And that, … to me, … is a life picture of what God’s word (see Scriptures above) calls us Christians to do; … and that is to humbly walk in the shoes of Christ as long, and as necessary, to be able to follow Him and lead others to Him.  So, we ask ourselves today: … Am I really waking in HIs shoes by waking in the shoes of others today?       

           

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to walk with others in the shoes of our Lord. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to walk in Your shoes, Lord, … by walking in the shoes of others today.     Amen  

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