Dec 15 2025 … Following HIs Way …

Dec 15 2025 …  Following HIs Way … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Phil Wickham singing The Jesus Way … slowing that following Jesus is the way to go in life, becoming an ambassador of God’s love and grace.

Highlight Passage: … 2Corinthians 2:4 … [NLT] …  

4 … I wrote that letter in great anguish, with a troubled heart and many tears. I didn’t want to grieve you, but I wanted to let you know how much love I have for you.

Highlight Passage in Context:  2Corinthians 2:1-8   [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul wrote his friends in Corinth to help them follow Jesus …  out of deep love for them.

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Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, after washing the feet of His Disciples in the upper room, commands them to become ambassadors of His love and grace to to others.

Reference Passage: …  Romans 5:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches those who follow Christ how Jesus gave His life to save us sinners. 

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:1-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about the kind of Christlike love Christians are to show to others.

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

… Paul gives witness to how his life was transformed to love others when he surrendered his life to follow Christ.

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

… Finally Paul exhorted fellow Christians to take on the attitude of Christ to care for the welfare of others more than we do our own selfish desires. 

Reference Passage:… 1John 4:11-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle John teaches fellow Christians about loving and caring for others, showing God’s love through our love for others.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread from Tim Gustafson …  USE THS LNK   …  wrote about Hippocrates in ancient Greece (460-375 BC), who led medicine in that time out of the dark ages of superstition into the light of testing and observation.  He taught of retaining the humanity of caring for the patient; and he was quoted as saying, ”It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.” 

And that was the ultimate message Jesus had for those who were committed to follow Him (see Scriptures above), like His Disciples, and prayerfully all who read with me here.  If my readers have taken in the poignant and powerful linked song, I’m praying that we all are striving, with our very beings, to follow “The Jesus Way” and become more like our Lord, … day-by-day,  … becoming ambassadors of God’s love and grace to others.  That’s where I’m headed!   How about you?  

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for being my model of love and grace to follow all the days of my life.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … THANKS, Lord, for calling all of us to follow Your way, every day!  … Amen

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