Realignment

Today I read some of Ephesians and I was just so captured by Paul's humility - "who am less than the least of all saints" (Eph. 3:8) - the great Apostle to the gentiles, who the Lord used to perform such hectic signs, and who basically changed European history. Flip. Our Christian culture is so easily hijacked by self-promotion and "looking good, looking strong, looking hectic". But, rather, the Lord "has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise" (1 Cor. 1:27). Humility, weakness, inadequacy, brokenness and infirmity seem to be where the blessing is. Not brokenness from sinful acts, but brokenness from being 100% reliant in the Lord "that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead" (2 Cor. 1:9). "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2 Cor. 12:9).

Lord Jesus, please teach us vulnerability before you, not self-assurance and arrogance, but casting ourselves on You to be and to do the things you have called us for. Without You we can doing nothing.

Amen