MY FRIENDS, IS GOD’S GRACE REALLY SUFFICIENT FOR OUR PAIN?

June 23, 2015

MY FRIENDS, IS GOD’S GRACE REALLY SUFFICIENT FOR OUR PAIN?

Can you imagine a large piece of wood or a splinter driven into your flesh that you are never able to remove, the daily pain, constantly pleading with God to remove it? Forever wondering how does God expect you to serve him with this constant discomfort?

You know nothing is too hard for God, for he is Omnipotence, an all-powerful being and since He is also Omniscience, all knowing, He knows our pain, but for some reason, this is a prayer He will not answer in spite of our diligent service and commitment.

Let’s see how Paul handles such a dilemma. In 2 Cor. 12:7-10 (NKJV) Paul tells us, “Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  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.

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” My friends, maybe the thorn in our flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment us is not always physical.

Maybe it is a child on drugs or pregnant, or a sick husband or wife needing our constant care, or maybe like Paul it is personal ailment that we have had for years that we constantly pray about, but to no avail.

But also like Paul, God’s tells us, His grace is sufficient. In addition, He will never allow situations and circumstances to come into our life that He knows we cannot handle. But what He does give us, is His grace and power which is sufficient and through our weakness we will be made strong through Christ, if we will only believe and endure.

And as God’s presence is constantly being renewed in our lives each day, His will is than made known to us as we continue on this journey until we have crossed over into the promise land. For “everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” Ecc. 3:1 (NKJV) So we must allow our faith to lead us.

“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” Isaiah 59:1 (NKJV) But we must take God at His word when He tells us “My grace is sufficient. Webster tells us the word sufficient means “adequate for the purpose”

Christ was asked by His disciples when they came upon a man who had been blind from birth, who sinned they asked, was it the blind man’s Parents or him? Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

I must work the works of Him who sent me… As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5 (NKJV) My friends God knows and understands, but our life must be centered around Him and His will for us. As a Child of God, as long as we are living in the presence of God we must “boast all the more gladly about [our] weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on [us].

That is why, for Christ’s sake, [we] delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when [we are] weak, then [we are] strong,” as God prepares us for His pure and Holy kingdom and the faith and  endurance it will take to get there.

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

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