Saturday 28 Oct 2017

October 28: 2 Corinthians 12:6-10

Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on 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 they affect our own lives and forgetting about how they interact with everyone else around us. Maybe we are just being selfish.

There are those who will advertise how a bit 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 way, so 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 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 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 which may 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 wants us to be sure we are dependent on Him in all things. Watching us beam in pride for doing something right is not really helping us to glorify Him in the right ways. Watching us succeed in business and proclaim our way as the right way of doing things is not helping His cause. He may just allow things to go wrong to make sure we do remember who is in charge and who needs all the glory in our relationship with Him!

Points to Ponder:
Are you dependant on any people in your life?

How dependent are you on God?