Acts 2:22-24, Philippians 3:10
“22 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— 23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.” (Acts 2:22-24)
It is God’s grace to us to remove the poisonous of pride and self-exaltation from our souls, by creating weakness in our lives.
God knows exactly what you need, and what you need is Him and dependence on Him.
God, out of everyone, is keenly aware of just how fragile and weak we all really are.
It is His grace to us, to give us a savior who is not only well acquainted with our frailty and weakness, but one who is unselfish with God in His weakness.
There was not one hint of pride in Jesus as He offered up His innocent and pure life. What a gloriously fragrant offering to the Father.
It is by Christ’s submission and giving up Himself in humble weakness to the obliteration of God’s Holy wrath, that we are guaranteed eternal life.
God’s grace to us is to allow us to share in Christ’s weakness.
For it is in His weakness that God received and continues to receive all the glory that He is due.
We should not be surprised then, when God pre-ordains weakness in our lives.
Why are we surprised at this?
In one word: Pride.
Pride is the poisonous root running underneath all of our rebellion to God’s creating weakness in our lives. God’s reaction to pride is pure red hot wrath; The cross tells us just that.
What underlies both the unbelief in the atheist as well as the Christian, is pride.
It is therefore God’s grace to us to remove the poisonous of pride and self-exaltation from our souls, by creating weakness in our lives.
We would do well to look, see and hear as Jesus prays over and over again in the Garden of Gethsemane as the poison of our pride is poured out all over our savior’s soul, as though He was the one shaking His prideful fist at God demanding that He recognize our right to His throne.
God the father, lead His Son by his Spirit, to the place of crushing on account of our pride.
We would be foolish and naive to think that God will not lead us to that place as well, over and over and over again.
As God conforms us to the image of His Son, He conforms us to the death of His Son as well.
God is not doing this to be punitive. It is not out of His anger that He creates weakness in our lives.
It is His mercy, as He eradicates the root of all of our sinful rebellion against Him by creating weakness in our lives.
When we look at the cross, we ought to see that God sees who we really are: savage invaders who are hellbent on dethroning God and replacing Him with ourselves or some other desire.
Prayer: God please help us in these last days to keep our eyes on your precious Son, for it is by His precious blood that we have been reconciled to you.
Oh how we need more of you and so much less of us.
Thank you father for allowing us to participate in the sinless life, atoning death and powerful resurrection of your beautiful Son; and may we treasure your Holiness as much you do.
May your Son be crowned with all of our crowns, for He is the one who has earned them for us, and may we lay them at His feet as the one who deserves all the eternal praise.
Father please destroy all of our pride, and and thank you for the weakness you create in our lives, for it is the means by which you transform us into the image of your glorious Son.
May we along with Paul, be blessed to say, “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” (Philippians 3:10).
Jesus may your name be praised for all for eternity and may you come quickly to get all the glory you so righteously deserve.
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