Thoughts for another day

August 17, 2006

Today's verse: 2 Ch. 14:11. And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: (KJV).

Exhibiting powerlessness before God is the greatest cause for the power of God to be displayed in that individual’s life. It requires humility and inner resolve (or extreme desperation) to tell others that you are powerless because the world craves to be known as successful and powerful. Humility arising out of extreme desperation of course is not in order, though God will look at the person anyway.

The bane of mankind is the peer pressure, which makes one claim to be more than one is. It is never the practice of people to humble themselves and display helplessness before others. However, with God it doesn’t work. When you come before God you need to humble yourself for that’s when He will look at you. God’s criteria for healing or any such thing is prima facie humility. And isn’t it but right that before the Sovereign of the universe, we be humble? In today’s verse, we see Asa a king making himself a weakling before God and God, if you read further, answers his prayer.

When the Almighty casts His glance upon the children of men and He spots someone who is humble and weak, that person He chooses to bless. The ill situation of that person changes as God’s power touches the very fabric of the situation and heals it inside out. God is never a one who will ignore His humble and powerless servants. In fact, He Himself says (2 Co. 12:9) ‘My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ If today, you are standing in queue to avail of God’s blessings, you know what to do, don’t you?