Strength that God Supplies 🕊️

 1 Peter 4:11, “whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

Have you ever stopped to consider the sheer strength and power of God?
It’s good for us to step back and consider how His strength surpasses everything else that can seem so strong compared to us.

Consider the jaws of a great white shark, or the power of an earthquake or volcano. Or the power of falling water, like Niagara Falls that produces enough electricity for power 3.8 million homes per day.
Now imagine the Nobel Frame of a Belgin Draft horse that’s one of the strongest breeds and can weigh nearly 2000 pounds. 

So, it isn’t too difficult for us to be impressed by such strength, and then easily reason that the creator of such things must be infinitely stronger... But God doesn’t mean for us to think of His power merely as a physical thing.

 Romans 1:20 says,“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,” 

The physical strength of God should be apparent to us all in nature. But in the Scriptures, God means to teach us about His strength in ways more important and significant than just the physical.

One way in which God shows His strength is in the moral realm.
We call it holiness.

And He shows His strength not just in a protective, and watchful way, in other words, defensively.

But God also shows His strength offensively, for He is our rock, our sanctuary... 
Like we are told in Psalm18:2-3:

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.”

Not only does God Himself not succumb to the power of sin, but His power is stronger than the power of sin.

His strength breaks the strength of sin. His ability to redeem surpasses the ability of sin to ruin. 

Another way in which God shows Himself strong is in His ability to sustain us in life’s most difficult circumstances.

There is a strength that God supplies in order that in everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, just as we are told in...

1 Peter 4:11, “whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

And His power is at its most powerful when we are in our greatest times of need. 
The real proving ground for His power is not when our lives are peaceful, and all is well. But the times when the storm clouds gather.

God demonstrates His strength not in the calm of our lives, but in the storm. When we find ourselves in the fires of life.

And God uses His power in defeating sin while granting us His strength and sustaining us in our suffering and pain.

And the remarkable way in which God shows Himself strong is through the cross of Jesus Christ. For Jesus is at work in us, and He is slowly shaping us into sons of righteousness.

And we need to remember the encouraging words we are given in 1 John 4:4, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world”

As strong as Satan may seem... as powerful as sin’s pull may be- as enslaving as our shame may be- as terrible as our circumstances may feel- Jesus is stronger.

Remember what I said earlier...

That there is the strength that God supplies - That God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. 

1 Peter 4:11, that “whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ...