A word for word adaptation of Pastor Gero’s devotionals, Saturday the 10th Dec. 2022.
*PRIMETIME WITNESSES OF GOD’S GRACE AND POWER.*
Have you noticed how people listen and watch at those in pain with a special intensity? People watch those who are hurting but still not quitting their life courses to see what really matters most to them. If the pain is great enough, you’ll find out where the strength of the person really lies. You’ll see the character on the inside that inspires them and that will in turn inspire us.
It’s a prime -time witness, when all eyes are on the person who hurts but still continues with a course. In the world of sports, it might be a marathoner bleeding and limping slowly in the race when it seems obvious to many that he won’t make it to the finish line let alone winning the race.
In the movies, it’s the star, getting up again from a deadly fight that should have been an end of him, one more time. In real life, it’s a wounded soldier coming home, still proud of the uniform and the duty that cost him so much. And in the New Testament, it’s Paul crawling out from underneath a pile of rocks in Lystra, dusting himself off, and again heading to another risky mission in Derbe.
It is you, still rising up from a low moment or a failure, or even a shameful sin, picking up from a really discouraging season, dusting yourself and deciding to still pursue your noble life courses despite the evident losses or the obvious injuries. What a witness you can become as we watch you stagger on despite the pain?
When we see such passion in the midst of such pain, we applaud it, follow it, and find inspiration for our own lives through the example of others.
There is some pain so great, it seems impossible to bear. In that place, only God can meet the need, or heal the heart. Unfortunately, it is in that same place of greatest pain, and there alone, that the discovery can be made, that pain has power. Like nothing else, it can introduce us to the power of God. But the lesson is so difficult at times, the only way any of us would discover it is that God allows pain to be a part of our lives so that we can be PRIMETIME WITNESSES of His grace, love and power to a watching and curious world.
Yes, you can minister to us through your pain! Be a primetime witness!
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But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Cor 12: 9-10)
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Zachary G. Njuguna.
Christ's Bondservant.