Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this glorious day. It is going to be one of the ten best days of October. Praise the Lord for the life we have because of Christ. Praise the Lord for the gifts He gives us so that we can use these gifts to serve Him and be a blessing to others. St. Paul, though he had handicap, could say, "Handicapped But Still Capable!" He loved the Lord with great passion and served Him great zeal and obedience.
"And He said unto me, ’My Grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the Power of Christ my rest upon me." (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Unless we are very rare exceptions, we are all handicapped in some way. We are deaf or hard of hearing, we need eyeglasses, we are crippled, or we have some form of bodily illness or ailment. Yet, we are still capable of greatness! Countless numbers of individuals are mentally handicapped in one form or another. Still others are handicapped by their circumstances. Unfortunately, too many people let their handicaps chain them to inertia or despair! They become incapable of reaching for the best that the Lord of life ,has to offer. Still others turn their handicaps into blessings!
The late great Scottish Christian minister, author, and poet George Macdonald (1824 - 1905), once wrote, "No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in a wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have ’learned in suffering what they taught in a song.’ In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards indited, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the ’Pilgrim’s Progress.’ Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a man [or, a woman], he puts him [or, her] in the fire."
The late great Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal, Henry Edward Manning (1808 - 1892), once said about strength, "We never have more than we can bear. The present hour we are always able to endure. As our day, so is our strength. If the trials of many years were gathered into one, they would overwhelm us; therefore, in pity to our little strength, He sends first one, and then another, then removes both, and lays on a third, heavier, perhaps, than either; but all is so wisely measured to our strength that the bruised reed is never broken. We do not enough look at our trials in this continuous and successive view. Each one is sent to teach us something, and altogether they have a lesson which is beyond the power of any to teach alone."
The Apostle Paul had a handicap which he referred to as a "thorn in the flesh!" Three (3) times he prayed that Almighty God might take it away! However, Almighty God denied his request! On the contrary the Lord Jesus gave Paul great courage and an amazing grace to overcome his handicap. Paul could write, in Romans 8:
35"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He is our or Prophet, He is our Priest, and He is our King. In Him we have everything we need for life and for righteousness.
Blessed be His Name,
In Him,
Brown
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