Luke 12:27 “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
Michael continues: In Galatians 5:16 the apostle Paul says: “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Despite the cares and concerns of this life, Jesus knows our every weakness and the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The Lord also knows what we really need. Paul asked God three times to remove his painful thorn in the flesh. He said, Lord, I’ll serve you better without this constant suffering. The first two times God did not answer. The third time, God answered Paul’s prayer, but it was not the answer that Paul expected. However, this is one of the great lessons of life, learned only through suffering, pain and tribulation. God’s answer was, “My strength is made perfect in thy weakness. My grace is sufficient for thee.”
There is nothing in this life that God can’t handle. God is the God of grace and He alone is our sufficiency.Jesus said, “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Live in the present” … all you have is now, this stretch of history. The secret to happiness is that our joy is in the Lord. It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey; it’s a true adventure. The Christian’s journey is walking with the Lord, one step at a time and one day at a time. Jesus said, I’m your sufficiency for today, so don’t worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of the things for tomorrow. I am your sufficiency and your strength for today’s walk and todays Journey.
Jesus taught that joy in the Lord supersedes earthly happiness. Happiness depends on circumstances or upon happenstance, however “Joy in the Lord” is everlasting. Joy is not the absence of pain, rather, true joy is the presence of the Lord. According to Romans 8:35-39, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor 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.”
Acts 17:26-28 tells us, “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” In Christ we live and move and have our being. The Lord takes care of the sparrow and the lily of the field. Will He not therefore, also take care of you as children of our loving Heavenly Father? He is our sufficiency in all things that we may live to the praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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