“MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU!”

 2 Corinthians 12:7-10                    (ESV)

“[7] So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. [8] Three times I pleaded with the LORD about this, that it should leave me. [9] But HE said to me, “”MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU” is sufficient for you, for MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS”. Therefore I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE GLADLY of my weaknesses, so that the POWER of CHRIST MAY REST UPON ME. [10] For the sake of CHRIST, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am WEAK, then I am STRONG.”

There are times when I am posting a devotional “online” and it SPEAKS to me differently than what I just posted!  Today is one of those times.   

In the Scripture verses above the WORDS were written on paper by the Apostle Paul, but they were inspired by the Holy Spirit!  The Apostle Paul says “Three times I pleaded with the LORD about this, that it should leave me” in verse eight.  Then IT IS WRITTEN in verse nine But HE said to me, “”MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU”, for MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS”.

WHO is the “HE” that Paul wrote about in verse nine?  HE is undoubtedly writing about THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES (Colossians 1:16), JESUS, the SON OF GOD, WHO also said “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU”!!  Since JESUS “SPOKE” these worlds into existence with NO HELP from we humans, it should go without saying that HE has the POWER to do ANYTHING without assistance.  

But in Matthew 17:20 JESUS HIMSELF was speaking to HIS disciples and told them “BECAUSE OF YOUR LITTLE FAITH (you could not heal a certain person). For truly, I say to you, IF YOU HAVE FAITH LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU”!!!

In Roman’s 8:10-11 we are EXPLICITLY told that the SPIRIT WHO raised JESUS from the dead lives in us!  “Therefore I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE GLADLY of my weaknesses, so that the POWER of CHRIST MAY REST UPON ME. For the sake of CHRIST, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am WEAK, then I AM STRONG” through JESUS CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT, because “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU”!!!