God is Mightier Than…

– July 25, 2017 – 

What is God mightier than? The easy answer, everything. The hard answer, still everything. In King Solomon’s days, and in all his wisdom, he wrote some of his interesting observations in Ecclesiastes chapter 3.  Basically, he pointed out that there is a time, or season, for everything in our lives. From birth to death, tear down and build up, mourn and dance, to be silent and to speak, just to name a few things.

Solomon also pointed out the advantages to having relationships and working together. His most powerful statement, I think, came when he said, “And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him, A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.”(Ecclesiastes 4:12) What Solomon was saying here is, a cord of three is when two people working together add Jesus into their lives and rely on His strength, guidance, and wisdom. Solomon also continued to say, “A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.”(Ecclesiastes 4:13) Don’t be fooled into thinking you know it all and can’t learn anything new.

Solomon asked God for wisdom, nothing more. He was already promised the throne. My point, when God asks “What do you want, what are the desires of your heart?” in today’s fast paced, instant gratification world, we tend to have limited thinking. Generally thinking only of stuff, when instead we should be asking for something more eternal, like wisdom, a relationship with Jesus Christ, or even a short term memory so that we can more easily forgive those who hurt us.

God is mightier than anything we can imagine, including our troubles.  I close with this quote from C.P. Hia, “Never measure God’s unlimited power by your limited expectations.”(Mightier than All, Our Daily Bread, Wed July 19, 2017)

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