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Day 11Simply in love with Jesus Monday, February 26, 2018
“...the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:3
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Devotional:
I have dearly loved God since I was a young girl. As long as I remember, the one thing I have relentlessly pursued is the truth about God and how to get closer to Him, at times, not very gracefully, but certainly tenaciously.
The simplicity that is in Christ. We are also told how Christ is Life. “I am the way the truth, and the life…” (John 14:6). And so it knits and weaves and forms… Life begins with the simple, Jesus is Life, the simplicity that is in Christ.
I love Jesus so much. I love God who is our Father, God borne in His Son, and God in the Holy Spirit. I love the living Word of God that has been given to us, preserved, perfect, true, and incorruptible.
When Pastor says, “Jesus the Christ,” my spirit soars and the cares of the world disintegrate into the worthless pile of nothingness that they are. I have complete faith that I am experiencing Truth. Jesus the Christ. I love that the truth can indeed make me free. I love that I can find those very words, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” right there in John 8:32.
I love the simplicity that is in Christ. When the great theologian Karl Barth was asked to summarize the essence of the millions of words he had published in his lifetime, he replied with the simple lyrics of that timeless hymn, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tell me so.”
As we sing the words to that hymn we learned as kids in Sunday School, young and old voices together, we sense that the Holy Spirit is Alive, the very air filled with His extravagant love.
“...He will wash away my sin, let His little child come in… Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me, for the Bible tells me so.”
The simplicity that is in Christ. We are also told how Christ is Life. “I am the way the truth, and the life…” (John 14:6). And so it knits and weaves and forms… Life begins with the simple, Jesus is Life, the simplicity that is in Christ.
I love Jesus so much. I love God who is our Father, God borne in His Son, and God in the Holy Spirit. I love the living Word of God that has been given to us, preserved, perfect, true, and incorruptible.
When Pastor says, “Jesus the Christ,” my spirit soars and the cares of the world disintegrate into the worthless pile of nothingness that they are. I have complete faith that I am experiencing Truth. Jesus the Christ. I love that the truth can indeed make me free. I love that I can find those very words, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” right there in John 8:32.
I love the simplicity that is in Christ. When the great theologian Karl Barth was asked to summarize the essence of the millions of words he had published in his lifetime, he replied with the simple lyrics of that timeless hymn, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tell me so.”
As we sing the words to that hymn we learned as kids in Sunday School, young and old voices together, we sense that the Holy Spirit is Alive, the very air filled with His extravagant love.
“...He will wash away my sin, let His little child come in… Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me, for the Bible tells me so.”
Prayer: |
Dear Father God, thank you for your truth- that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, that the Truth opens up the treasure of freedom, a new way to think and live! Keep me pressing on the upper way, always guide me more I pray, undeserving and stubbornly, never fail to love me still.
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Song/Hymn: |
Jesus Loves Me “Pressing on the upper way, always guide me more I pray…
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