Daily Devotion

July 2, 2006

Psalms 84:7-8 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. (8) O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

It has been said, “It is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog”; and if the size of the ‘fight’ in the ‘dog’ is the strength of the Spirit of God, this David can kill any Goliath.

Decay, waste and corruption are of the earth; they belong to the incomplete and temporal realm of the physical. What is today new is soon become old: the grass and flowers of spring fade after a season; the beauty that once radiated vanishes under the wrinkles of time; the strength of yester years gives way to weakness and dependence. The whole creation groans (Rom 8:22) and laments fighting the corruption brought by the cohorts of death.

Only in the realm of the Spirit of God is this phenomena reversed. Lo and behold, hear now the wonders of the realm of the Kingdom of God. It is a realm where the old becomes new (2 Cor 5:17), and the weak becomes strong (Heb 11:34). Youth is renewed (Psa 103:5), and death conquered in resurrection. Life is sown in dishonor and weakness, yet reaped in power and glory in the last day (1 Cor 15:43).

So think not as men think. Do not judge by appearance only, because what is despised to man as weak and meek may be covered with the power of God. Remember also the words of the apostle: “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” (2Co 12:10)

Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Patrick Lumbroso
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