Your Greatest Need
Pastor Ricky Kurt :
: Even in these challenging financial times, the greatest need of a
Christian is not monetary. It is rather found in Colossians 1:11, where
Paul prays that we might be
“Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all…”
Unto all what? Whatever it is, Paul is convinced we are going
to have to be “strengthened” with “all might”
according to “His glorious power” to obtain it. As we read on,
Paul tells us the goal of all this empowerment:
“…unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.”
Patience? The reason we need all this mighty empowering is so we can be
patient? While this may seem anticlimactic, we submit
that patience is our greatest need. We need patience to
put up with the world’s wickedness, the abortions, etc.,
patience in knowing the Second Coming of Christ will right the
world’s wrongs. We need patience as televangelists continue to
dominate the airwaves with their dilutions and pollutions of the gospel,
and patience as Bible teachers muddle the minds of the saints by
their failure to rightly divide the Word. And since no man today has the
gift of healing, we need patience with our physical infirmities, and
longsuffering as we wait for that wonderful change that will come to our
bodies at the Rapture (Phil. 3:20,21).
Finally, we need patience with one another, as we learn to not
just put up with other believers, but to actually give them the same
unconditional love and acceptance God extends to us. Moses was patient with
unbelieving Pharaoh, but lost his patience with his brethren. How like us!
But ask yourself, when did David show greater spiritual strength, when he
slew Goliath, or when he refused to slay Saul?
Paul says we are to be strengthened to all patience “according to
His glorious power,” but what is God’s glorious power? The
destructive power He exhibited at the Red Sea is called “glorious” (Ex.
15:6), but we suggest that God’s glorious power today is seen in
His patience. The fact that God could put an end to the abortions
and religious confusion, but doesn’t, is His most glorious power in the
dispensation of grace.
The apostle concludes by praying that we might be patient “with
joyfulness,” perhaps the hardest part of longsuffering. God
doesn’t chafe under the vexations He receives from the world, religion,
and the Body of Christ, and neither should we!
If this kind of power were not available to us, Paul would not be
praying that we might have it. And so may his prayer also be the prayer of
our hearts, as we enthusiastically study the only source of
spiritual strength, God’s Word rightly divided.
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