In Ezra's account of the Israelite return to the land and effort to rebuild the temple, opposition arose as it always does when responding to God's call. When asked to defend their authorization to reconstruct the temple, their first answer was not to pull out the decrees given by the human governing authorities. While they did provide the governing authority "proof" (vv 13, 17), their first response was the knowledge of who they were and more importantly whose they were. In this knowledge, they pressed on in the knowledge that this was what God had called them to do.And thus they returned us an answer, saying: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth,...
(Ezra 5:10-11a)
Jennifer Benson Schuldt in her ODB writing today wrote the reminder, "It is God’s power that enables His work, not our own." This sentence struck me as a truth in three different aspects:
- God's power enables His work, not our own [power]. -- We should never think that "we got this" and lose sight that it is His power that accomplishes His work.
- God's power enables His work, not our own [work]. -- If God is not in it, God's power will not support it.
- God's power enables [not does] His work, not our own. -- Praise the Lord that He has entrusted faithful servants with His work. There is no feeling quite like know God has worked to touch another life through you.
Lord, let me be a conduit of Your power as You work through me to fulfil Your plan.
(Scripture quotation from The Holy Bible, New King James Version Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.)
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