Our Strength Is By Grace

Good Morning!! It is not hard to find someone who will give support to the powerful, attention to the famous, notice to the remarkable, or recognition to the accomplished. Virtually everyone is willing to jump on the bandwagon of some well-known, talented, or beautiful person. But God gives encouragement to the faint. He gives strength to the exhausted. He does not join the crowds hurrying after celebrities,...He seeks out the broken-hearted and the overlooked, and gives them the greatest honor imaginable,...His attention and His love.

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.— Isaiah 40:29 (NIV)

 

While this is liberating, and also invigorating,...it's humbling,...even humiliating, to realize, that we truly have no merit,...that we can stake no claim to His assets, we have no might apart from His. Yet, He still sends us reinforcements, of strength and provision. It's God’s grace, not our value or virtue, that draws Him to a hurting, helpless humanity.  We can let all our collected claims of good works and inherent worth, fall around our feet, as we reach out to a God,...Who only heals the sick, Who only mends the broken, Who only gives strength to the powerless.

 

It doesn’t matter how others might see or describe us,...if we are broken-hearted and helpless before the Lord,...then prepare for a strength infusion from the most High Himself.

 

Help us Father God, because we can not help ourselves. Amen.

 

"If I speak in the tongues of men or angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."