Everything about Jesus’ birth was unusual. He is King. He is the Messiah. His humble birth challenged the status quo. We, as humans, make a lot of assumptions. What does God do? He shakes it up. He throws a twist to how we think things should or will go. He does opposition to our comprehension of power.
Read 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. “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.” Say what! In weakness, God’s power is made perfect!
Right here is the perfect example that God functions on opposite principles to the world. Take a look at Isaiah 53:2-3, “He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by humankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.” This is how Isaiah described our Messiah. Jesus was just a plain, ordinary man that gave people compassion and love.
Jesus is a plain contrast to our human ideas of what power and strength are. He works on the inside of us rather than the outside. He transforms us into His likeness. We learn to love others with the power of Christ. Are you ready to let go of your power and hold onto God’s power?
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your unusual ways of doing things. I pray that we will hold onto your power and not ours. That we will let you lead us the way you intend to lead us.
In Jesus Name
Amen
