Good Morning Totally-Sold-Out-To-The-Messiah-Tuesday(Counting of The Omer Day 2)!
Abba, Thank You for this day’s BREATH that we BREATHE. Help us, guide us, fill us with Your LIGHT, and lead us to BE MORE LIKE You and Your Perfect Image YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST. We pray to you in Yeshua, Jesus Christ’s Name we pray. AMEN! Happy Tuesday everyone! With all the wonderful things that happened during Passover, The Feast of Unleavened Bread, and The Feast of First Fruits, it had me thinking... “How Mighty is The Sacrificial Love our God and Father showed us 2020 years ago on The Passover?!” He became The Passover Lamb, He was sacrificed for us, and He made sure that we were forgiven from the transgressions that would have, without a doubt, kept us out of His Kingdom. Because of Yeshua Our Teacher, He welcomes us with open arms. Praise God Almighty for making The Way! For forgiving our sins! For treating us like, not only His children, but children He Loves So Much… That He Would Give His Own Life. What unimaginable Kindness, Mercy, and Compassion He has for us! The Love of God… HOW MAGNIFICENT! This is what was swimming in this servants thoughts as today’s devotion was being prepared. Mindful of this, it led me from praise and humility to a place of deep reverence. It really is almost unimaginable, if not for Our Father’s Spirit, the magnitude of what He has done for us. Today, as we count day two of The Omer, just as last week when we removed the leaven from our homes (remove sinful ways from our life), with gratitude in our hearts, let us all be humbled as we think about the magnitude of what we have been forgiven for, and how Mighty Is The Love from Our Father In Heaven… that He so freely gives us. If any of us is having a tough time with putting this to thought, we only need look at the similarities with each of us in The Parable of The Prodigal Son. Look at the father’s Love even after the son has squandered his inheritance and life, throwing away all his father had taught him, and ended up living with pigs. There is truly a picture of us all in this, whether we can see it or not. This picture and parable is something we can each meditate on to come to a place of sincere and honest reverence for Our King and Savior, what He has done for us, and His Mighty Sacrificial Love. Not to mention The Overpowering Love He shows in this parable by greeting the prodigal son with no malice, resent, or rebuke, but rather with Open Arms. Just as The Prodigal Son, at one time we have all squandered what Our Father has given to us… Mighty Is His Love To Accept Us Back With Open Arms When We Repent and Reconcile Ourselves To Him! Ahava (Love)… this is what saved our lives that Passover Evening over 2020 years ago. Just as this servant was pondering these thoughts, and preparing for today’s devotion, Our Father had this beautiful Berean Devotion show up in this servant’s inbox. It’s a beautiful devotion, and that is what we will look at today. May God Bless each and everyone of you on the other side of this screen, and may each and everyone of you have a Blessed, Terrific, Totally-Sold-Out-To-The-Messiah-Tuesday! Sincerely, Servant of Yeshua 7 A big Thank You to our late Brother,John W. Ritenbaugh, and berean.org for today’s devotion. “Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.” Acts 17:11 - A Berean Breakdown: The Essence of Love and A Sense of Well-Being - Luke 15:13-17 (Counting of The Omer Day 2) “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!” Luke 15:13-17 NKJV The question at this point is still, "How are we trying to find satisfaction in life?" We could reword it, "How are we trying to find Love, joy, and peace?" The Parable of the Prodigal Son touches on this issue. Like the young man, we yearn for a feeling of well-being, peace, security, fun, and happiness. Also like him, we pursue after them, attempting to produce them in virtually every way but The Father's Way. We, like him, experience the same empty, hollow, something-is-missing feelings. Some may remember a popular song of a few decades ago sung by Peggy Lee titled "Is That All There Is?" The lyrics dealt with this very subject. The singer recounts having tried so many supposedly exciting and fulfilling things in life yet having found no lasting satisfaction in any of them. Following each experience, she concludes by asking the question, "Is that all there is?" The song clearly expresses that such a life is not truly fulfilling. What is missing from such a life is The True Purpose of Life combined with the effort of fulfilling it by Living The Required Way. The three offerings in Leviticus 1-3—the burnt, meal, and peace offerings—broadly define God's Way of Life: doing all things within the context of His Purpose In Love. As we have seen, I John 5:3 defines Love as keeping The Commandments, and The Essence of Love Is Sacrificial Giving. Though without The Spirit of God, some people (psychologists, for instance) have figured out much of this. The part they have not determined through observing humanity is The True Purpose of Life because God has not revealed it to them. They have, however, found that The Essence of Love Is Sacrifice and that doing the right things produces a sense of well-being. Please leave any questions, comments, insights, Biblical Nuggets, encouragement, prayer requests, or thoughts in the comments below.
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