Bible Verse of the Day Monday May 10th 2021

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.  

If we have expectations of living our lives by grace through faith, we will have to get to know God on a very personal level. We can memorize scripture to impress those around us or intellectually learn the text of the Bible. Still, if we do not have a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, the Bible will be just another book in our library. The more we get to know Him, the closer our relationship with Him becomes, and faith and humility will begin to develop and mature in our lives. When we live in humble dependence on the Lord, we will live by the Grace of God. The Lord shows favor and gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5). We do not have to go very many days before a stark jolt of reality will remind us of our human limits. 

Many have fallen and are being held in the bonds and chains of sin because of a false sense of self-reliance. When one's sufficiency is of God, there is no limit to the power we have at our disposal; however, it is not our power but the power of the Holy Spirit that indwells all followers and believers in Christ Jesus. 

This heavenly standpoint has its origin in a pronouncement and affirmation of our own incompetence, "not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves" (2 Corinthians 3:5). Jesus reaffirmed this truth in telling us that we can accomplish nothing without Him, but through Him, all things are possible (John 15:5; Philippians 4:13). When we earnestly accept this emboldening and reassuring truth, we will be walking in faith in the direction of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. 

When God called Jeremiah to go and warn the children of Israel of the coming Judgment, Jeremiah said he was afraid to speak to the people because he was so young (Jeremiah 1:6). God told Jeremiah not to fear anyone because He was with him (Jeremiah 1:7-8). Our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, is calling each of us to live a victorious life filled with joy and excitement so that we might be good witnesses to all people. 

Today, many of us are saying to God that we cannot do what He has called us to do. But His promise to us is that His sufficiency will more than compensate for our insufficiency. God is seeking our availability, not our ability.

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