Indomitable
This has been a challenging series for me.There is incredible beauty, hope and potential in the core-premise: God is working in me.
But so often we take this great truth for granted and we don't live in full and beautiful relationship with the God who chooses to live and work in us.
I can only hope that looking at this one idea over and over again has alerted us to the wonder of His love and that we haven't been numbed by the repetition.
Paul captured the contrast:
God's incredible power: Light in the Darkness.
Our frailty and tendency to take things for granted: Clay Pots
Read our final passage in this important series:
| For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. (2Corinthians4:5-11) |
Beautiful isn't it?
Just two thoughts:
1. When the clay pot is cracked, the light shines through the cracks. God works in me, even in my brokenness.
2. When God is at work in us, trouble may come, but we will overcome.
We are indomitable!
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I hope you have found this series helpful.
We've considered 13 promises of God's working in us and we've contemplated the wonderful implications of that. Please look back at the previous devotions and let the truth come home:
God is at work in you!
With much love,
God bless,
Theo
