Sunday Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:6-10
Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9
9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.
Devotion:
How many times have you asked God to get rid of something in your life and are still wondering if He will ever grant your wish? Or maybe you thought you had so much more potential than you have shown but cannot seem to ever get there... Well, just maybe, we look at things in the wrong way. Maybe we are looking at our own strengths and weaknesses and how the affect our own lives and forgetting about how they interact with everyone else around us. Maybe we are just being selfish...
Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9
9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.
Devotion:
How many times have you asked God to get rid of something in your life and are still wondering if He will ever grant your wish? Or maybe you thought you had so much more potential than you have shown but cannot seem to ever get there... Well, just maybe, we look at things in the wrong way. Maybe we are looking at our own strengths and weaknesses and how the affect our own lives and forgetting about how they interact with everyone else around us. Maybe we are just being selfish...
There are those that will advertise how a bis of selfishness will make a big difference in your life. They will tell you that in order to get a better business, you have to be selfish in some manner so that others will not take advantage of you. Yet our selfish pride will stop us from achieving all manner of things. God has not placed us here to exercise selfishness but to learn to live in brotherly love. He wants us to be able to be humble enough to realise that He is our God and that He is the one in charge of our lives. The longer we try to place ourselves in charge, the longer we will find that we don't get our own way – that's all we will gain from it!
But with every good thing in our lives, there seem to be a whole bunch of bad things that come along too. God does not want us to be conceited in our relationship with Him. He wants us to be totally confident in Him, yet does not want us to take Him for granted. He want us to be sure that we are dependant on Him in all things. Watching us beam in pride for doing something right is not helping us to glorify Him in any manner. Watching us succeed in business and proclaim the right way of doing things is not helping His cause. He will allow things to go wrong to make sure that we do remember just who is in charge and just who needs all the glory in our relationship with Him!
Points to Ponder:
Are you dependant on any people in your life?
How dependant are you on God?
Are you dependant on any people in your life?
How dependant are you on God?