Oct 4, 2024 …More Like You, Lord!

Oct 4, 2024 …More Like You, Lord! 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   

… Please take time to hear Zach Williams, with music and lyrics, singing Less Like Me, that God’s word calls us to be more like Jesus and less like our selves.    

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Highlight Passage: …1Peter 2:21 [NLT] … 

21 For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffere] for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps.

… Peter calls on fellow Christians to live their (our) lives as did Christ.                    

    

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Peter 2:21-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter calls on fellow Christians to be willing to suffer as Jesus did.                                            

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Reference Passage: … John 13:12-15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus washes the feet of His disciples in the Upper Room to give them an example of how to live, serving others

Reference Passage:… John 14:15, 21 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  </b> 

…  Jesus calls for His Disciples to show their love for Him my obeying and following His way of living.     .                              

Reference Passage: …Galatians 3:27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…    The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to put on Christlikeness as we would put on new clothes.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:22-24 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …   

 … Paul also exhorts fellow Christians put off their (our) old nature and put on the new nature of Christlikeness as they (we) live to be more like Jesus.        

Reference Passage:… Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…    The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that God’s Spirit is working in all Christians to make them (us) over into the image of Christlikeness. 

Reference Passage: … 1John 2:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…    Again, the Apostle John convicts fellow Christians to live their (our) lives as did Jesus.           

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Bill Crowder  -  AT THIS LINK  - relates a story about a Christian friend named, George, who was working on a project rebuilding his home in the hot Carolina summer sun, when a neighbor came into the yard clamoring and complaining about the project.  And at the end of the neighbor’s rant, George simply said, “You’ve had a really hard day, haven’t you?”    And the neighbors angry attitude  was tempered immediately by George’s Christlike attitude, causing the neighbor to apologize to George for how the had spoken.  

And the situation in the ODB story illustrates how we, as Christians, are called to live our lives, modeling our behavior after that of our Lord, Jesus, Whom as we remember (see John 13 even washed the feet of His Disciples to show them (and us) how to relate and be like Him in dealing with others in our lives.  But are we?  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …showing me in the linked song and the Scriptures above that I need to be more like You, Lord, in the way I deal with others.              

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to seek to be more like You, Lord, and less like our selves.   … Amen

 

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