Everlasting Strength

Our days possess more stresses and distresses than any time of any generation. Even little children feel the tensions of our times. In our own strength, these stresses become unbearable.  Great pressures require great strength to endure – a strength not our own.

Sometimes the stresses of life make people assume the Lord doesn’t care. When the disciples were in a great storm, Jesus was asleep in the boat. They woke Him and said, “Master, don’t You care that we perish?” When Martha was feeling overwhelmed with company, she said to Jesus, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?”

But when the disciples turned to Jesus, He unleashed His power. The challenge of the storm became the opportunity for Him to calm it. The challenge of Martha’s weakness became the opportunity for Jesus’ strength.

The Apostle Paul, who suffered so greatly to get the Gospel into Asia, when he asked the Lord to remove his physical ailment, the Lord said, “My grace is sufficient for you: for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).

The cross proves Jesus cares. We must never doubt His love. He poured out His soul unto death that He might pour His Spirit into believing hearts. His invitation to trust Him is so that we can be grafted to His righteousness and strength forever.  His promise of love, as we feed on His Word daily, is “As your day, so shall your strength be.”

(Devotional by Lisa Cataford)