Only Human

Today, I have been taken off all my thoughts, my mind-sets and everything I had thought was our offering today. All that I saw and proposed as feasible and good to bring to you, have been laid aside, to follow our Teacher’s leading and guiding.

Our example comes from Paul, the Lord’s faithful and trusted servant, who is a human being just as you and I.

When Paul was bowed down in his weakness of flesh, and having asked three times to have this human frailty removed, the Lord taught Paul and is still teaching all of us, His present disciples and followers, persons like you and me, that His Power is made perfect in weakness. Be it known that it is only and can only mean, human weakness. How can this be the case? This is factual, for weakness is of human flesh, not of Divine Spirit. O! May the Holy Spirit grant us undefiled hearing ears, to know Spiritual hearing, which only He can bestow upon us. It is with renewed hearing, that we listen to these familiar words in the Spiritual newness of heart and mind. My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12: 9a.

Have you been hearing deep within your frail, fickle, helpless human frame, that God, the Lord Himself, has stated in living Word, these facts which we simply can’t live without, yet so very many of us insist in discarding or worse yet, fixing to suit ourselves? As I’m writing, my mind is taken back to what I heard a friend saying. Her sister had shared with her, soup which she had cooked for her family. My friend offered me some of her sister’s soup, with this bold explanation. “I added to my sister’s soup and made it to my taste. Her tastes and mine are different, so I fixed it up and it really tastes nice.” I had a laugh. We all do this with food, whether we add extra salt, spices, pepper, or what have you. I called it augmented soup. My friend augmented her sister’s soup, not necessarily to make it better, but to make it more suitable to her taste, her liking, her desire.

Our Lord nicely spoke to me after and told me that that is exactly what I do with His Word. He gives me what He has made, what He has created, what is of Him and I accept His Word. I do not take it and push my nose up against it, just as my friend will never respond in that way to her sister’s soup. I do not accept God’s Word then throw it into the garbage of my mind, just as my friend will not accept her sister’s soup and wash it down the drain. Like my friend, who cherishes all that her sister does for her, so too I cherish every Word God makes available to me, however like my friend, I want it to my taste, my individual desire.

What then do I do? What then do you do?

I leave you before the Lord, as you come to some quite stunning facts about yourself.

We meet tomorrow, Deo Volente.