Day 12 - More Than Anything

Author: Jared Fujishin (student)

Scripture:

“Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”(2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

Reflection:

Difficult situations are an opportunity. Be it sickness, exhaustion, suffering, or fasting from what you love most, when we encounter difficulties, we end up face-to-face with our human weaknesses and inadequacies.

This, my friends, is a good thing.

God’s primary concern is his glory. The more I read scripture, the more I see that this is God’s attitude: “I am the LORD; that is my name! I WILL NOT give my glory to another”(Isaiah 42:8). Often, God gets the maximum amount of glory when he uses people who in and of themselves are completely incapable of succeeding. Think about it--Gideon’s army of 300, Moses’s speech impediment, five stones against a giant, one man killing hundreds by himself with a mere donkey jaw bone, and the list goes on. The common denominator in the stories of all our Sunday School heroes—they were all hand picked by God, not in spite of their weaknesses, but because of them!

As David Platt puts it, “This is how God works. He puts his people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness.”

In this season of Lent, as we set aside time to fast and pray as a body of believers, petitioning God to move in mighty ways among his people of WJU, ask God to use YOU, even in your areas of weakness, to do mighty things.

Prayer for the Day:

Father, we are weak. Apart from you we are but helpless infants, but in you we are heirs, co-heirs with Christ! So let us share in your sufferings, and also in your glory; let us walk in step with your spirit; let our hearts look more like yours everyday! And as we humbly seek and follow, let us experience the kingdom, now.