OUR SOURCE OF
STRENGTH 2Corinthians 5:14-21 [The
Apostle Paul wrote to the congregation at Corinth]
Monday, June 1, 2020
Unless my Lord gives me some sort of further
revelation on the topic tomorrow, the DT STRENGTH series ends with this DT. The
ink and paper part that is, for godly reliance exercise dynamically should
never cease lest we become stagnant . . . or for some, to return to apathy
waiting to die. (1Tim.4:8; 6:6; 2Tim.3:5; 2Pet.1:3; 3:11)
Waiting to die for most people doesn’t
involve moroseness. It is treadmill activity, motion without progress pleasing
the Lord. Some, more energetic at waiting to die will tilt the treadmill and/or
leap from treadmill to treadmill, but still as is the case with treadmilling, go
nowhere with God.
There have been, presently are, and will be
individuals and groups of people with great personal strength.
Saul of Tarsus was such a man of great
personal strength: Energetic, well-educated, positioned and active in authority
with exercising great force of character and personality.
After his road to Damascus encounter with
Omnipotent Sovereign God, Saul did not have just a name change. (Act9:1-16) Nor
did he experience “homecoming” renewal as presented and offered in some
denominations. The new person Paul understood and accepted the truth that his,
man’s, strength is insufficient for present and eternal life.
Paul explained this in his letter to the
troubled congregation at Corinth: “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath
made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the
spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life [Gr.
Vitality/vitalizes]. . . . And [the Lord] said unto me, ‘My grace is sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.’” (2Cor.3:5-6; 12:9a)
For some reading the above, it is new news.
For others like me, it is yet again reminder. Whichever way matters little. The
important life question is: For strength, am I running on treadmills or
exercising on The One Way? (Jn.14:6)
EBB4
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