Title: What Are You Doing With Your Time?
Text:
2 Corinthians 12:9 (ESV)
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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Observation:
I came to my computer this morning with an open heart. The Lord directed my eyes to the above passage. In that passage I discovered my one word for today; it is weakness.
I looked at a scratch pad I had next to my computer and I had written down recently the question that I am using for the title. As I read the passage from 2 Corinthians in context I was reminded of a conversation I had with a friend when he was in the hospital, and facing a very serious health challenge. What I told my friend was that God does not take us into deep waters to drown us.
Isaiah 43:2 (ESV)
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
The past three weeks have been a difficult time in our household with our upper respiratory system. It has been a lot of weakness in our home with the coughing, sore throats, and laryngitis.
However, we have a great example of how to deal with sickness and adversities in our home; the example of my late wife Rosemary. This is one of the scriptures that she cherished, and lived out as a 25 year cancer survivor.
2 Corinthians 4:7 (ESV)
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
Prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so grateful that Your grace is sufficient for all of our needs, and that in weakness we have the privilege of demonstrating to a watching world, by the way we live our lives, that the power belongs to God and not to us. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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