A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
26th February🌷🌷
”And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee…”
(2 Cor. 12:9)
Whatever be the thorn in your life accept it as from the Lord. He allows the thorn to remain. That is God’s way to make you strong in faith and give you more grace. You may think that Paul had become very strong, but he learned how weak he was. Only when he learned about grace he knew fully about his weakness. In 2 Cor. 12:10 he says, “When I am weak, then am I strong”. To keep us weak God sends a thorn. In order to make us see our weakness He gives us a thorn and through that God wants to make us strong. What you call an unbearable thorn is meant to make you strong spiritually for eternity. If you go on thinking about your thorn and say, “Why did that man or that woman speak this about me?” You will find many bitter roots cropping up in your heart. Then you will give way to anger and hatred and it will take away your burden for prayer and God’s Word and you will lose your joy and peace. That is how many have lost their burden for prayer. Because of bitterness, you will start quarrelling. You say to the Lord, “If You do not remove this thorn within a day or two, I will not go to the assembly anymore or smile at the preachers”. In this way you fight with God every morning. He is Sovereign. What He cannot teach us in the third heaven, He teaches us upon the earth by this thorn. Paul was not stubborn but humble. He knew that, that thorn was the answer to make him still more humble. God’s standard is very high. That is why we do not now that all our thorns are allowed for a purpose. Have you been shedding tears for your thorn? Please repent for murmuring against God. Thank God for the thorn, take pleasure in it and you will find your joy multiplying manifold. From now onwards you will find your testimony more powerful and the power of God coming into you.
These thorns are allowed so that we may grow from to grace to grace, and strength to strength. Then God will bring us into His fullness. Now see how grace and truth go together, grace and peace go together, grace and glory go together. Similarly, grace and power go together. It is though God’s grace, we can see God’s glory. It is through God’s grace we have God’s truth. It is through God’s grace we serve Him. It is only through grace we are what we are. So in order to give us grace the Lord puts thorns in our lives.
If you are told by a doctor that by taking injections you will enjoy good health, you will readily take the injections, no matter how painful they are. But when God gives His injection in the arm, you begin to murmur. You say, “It is too painful, please stop”. The thorn of God is God’s injection, which is poked into us to bring grace into us. He answers you saying, “My grace is sufficient for thee”, and, whatsoever your thorn may be and howsoever painful, you will find the answer in these two words “My grace”. Do not think your case is different. We all have different kinds of pain, but the same remedy, it is God’s grace. He says, “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor. 12:9).
