CAN’T NOBODY DO YOU LIKE MY LORD! Find your Sufficiency in Him! When Paul weighed in his mind the enormous challenges that confronted him as an apostle of God, he asked himself, “Who is adequate for these things?” (II Corinthians 2:16). Every Christian shares Paul’s concern. We look inside at what we are, we glance around at the journey that we are taking, we look ahead at what we will face as the future comes to meet us, and our hearts immediately shout, “I don’t believe that I can manage these things!” In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul answered his adequacy question with a simple and straightforward statement that only a buoyant and robust faith can make. He said that we DO NOT find our adequacy in ourselves (II Corinthians 3:5a), but we find it in God (II Corinthians 3:5b). This sufficiency, he further said, is NOT JUST a partial help, a temporary portion of strength, or a mighty wave that is available every now and then; rather, it is a “sufficiency in everything” (II Corinthians 9:8). In writing to the Romans, Paul mentioned “tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and the sword—seven tragedies that we hope we will not experience—and then said, “But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:35). What an affirmation! He said that the Christian will not only get through such storms as these, but that he will live a triumphant life in the midst of them! Paul raised five important questions at the end of Romans 8:31b–35a. 1. “If God is for us, Who is against us?” “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, 2. How will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” 3. “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect?” “God is the one who justifies; 4. Who is the one who condemns?” 5. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” Study carefully the answers to each of these questions, and you will find that THE FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN STANDS ALWAYS IN THE UNLIMITED ADEQUANCY OF GOD. Christ’s Church: “OFFERING A BETTER LIFE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY”
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:02:41 +0000
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