Dec 21, 2024 … Reflecting His Wondrous Light

Dec 21, 2024 … Reflecting His Wondrous Light   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with the group Revival Worship singing … Shine Your Light … Showing that we Christians must shine the light of Christ into this darkening world. 

God's light shining in the Northern Lights ... 

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Highlight Passage: …Revelation 22:5 [NLT] … 

5 And there will be no night there — no need for lamps or sun — for the Lord God will shine on them. And they will reign forever and ever.           

… God’s revelation of the eternal source of all light in Heaven, … the New Jerusalem.                  

Highlight Passage (in context): … Revelation 21:23 - 22:5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God reveals to John the new Jerusalem in Heaven where God is the source of light and no need for sun or moon.                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Genesis 1:26-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…  God decides to make man to reflect His image into the world.                                

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul calls on Christians to avoid being like the world but shining God’s light by the way we live to be like The Lord.               

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 3:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also shows fellow Christians that they (we) can be His light in this dark world, reflecting His image for all to see.                       

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…  Paul witnesses that he has died to His old self and now reflects God’s glory by living for the Lord in this world.    

Reference Passage:… Ephesians 4:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… the Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that everyday, we must put-on our new nature, created by be like Christ. 

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

… The Author of Hebrews declares that Jesus radiates His glory in those He has saved. 

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Tim Gustafson  … AT THIS LINK   … The ODB author today tells of a Photographer, Ronn Murray, taking other photographers on tours to see and photograph the Northern Lights (see photo), believing that seeing God’s natural display of lights is a wonderful reflection of what is described in God’s word (see the Highlight passage).  

But even more glorious is seeing God’s light shine thru the life of those who do all they (we) can to reflect God’s light through how Christians lives their (our) lives.  Reading this in today’s ODB, I question what I (we) might do, … even today, … to shine HIs light (see Scriptures shared above).   Are you with me?    

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS:... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for giving Your light, thru Your word, to shine in my life.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to use Your word to reflect Your truth and light in the way we live for Your glory.      …  Amen

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