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Posted on 05/18/2019 5:03:04 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 7–9; John 6:22–44
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Turns out that crooked church steeples make people nervous. When we visited some friends, they shared how, after a fierce windstorm, their church’s proud steeple was crooked, causing some alarm.
Of course, the church quickly repaired the flagging spire, but the humorous image got me thinking. Often church is seen as a place where everything is expected to look perfect; it’s not seen as a place where we can show up crooked. Right?
But in a fallen, broken world, all of us are “crooked,” each with our own collection of natural weaknesses. We might be tempted to keep our vulnerabilities under wraps, but Scripture encourages the opposite attitude. In 2 Corinthians 12, for example, Paul suggests that it’s in our weaknesses—for him, an unnamed struggle he calls a “thorn in my flesh” (v. 7)—that Christ is most likely to reveal His power. Jesus had told Paul, “My power is made perfect in weakness” (v. 9). So Paul concluded, “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” (v. 10).
We may not like our imperfections, but hiding them only denies Jesus’s power to work within those aspects of ourselves. When we invite Jesus into the crooked places in us, He gently mends and redeems in ways our effort could never accomplish.
What are some of the “crooked” places in your life? In what ways have you seen God work through your imperfections?
Invite Jesus into your imperfections for His mending.
Amen Kathy and Thank you
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Did you have a good resting day? More radio?
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Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
A blessed Lord’s Day/Fifth Sunday of Easter/Fourth Sunday after Pascha (Sunday of the Parlytic) to all!
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...and a Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.
Is Blue ready for her doctor visit? How long will she be away?
Hopefully Blue will be restored to safe operation in a day. It’s not a particularly difficult job, but I just don’t have the tools or lift to do it.
The mechanic is only six miles away, so I CAN walk if i have to, to pick it up, but I am sure I can get a ride from somebody. :-)
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
I worked on the fork lift for a few hours.
Next radio is June 1st.
Howdy there, Mayor!
Things coming along well these days, getting back to normal again?
Y’all getting any springtime weather up there yet or is it still on the cool side. Seems like winter hasn’t wanted to loosen its grip on the north.
Howdy, Kathy.
Did you take Dot to the DMV and do it early enough to eat at that cool restaurant?
A Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours.
Happy Sunday of the Paralytic.
Today is called the Sunday of the Paralytic in the Orthodox liturgical calendar.
It is so called because of the Gospel appointed to be read today, John 5:1,
which recounts the healing by our Lord Jesus Christ of a paralytic at the Sheep Pool, called Bethesda.
I am SURE you can get a ride to pick her up. LOL!!
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