Devotional: God is My Strength & Power

 

 

God is My Strength & Power

By Marsha Iddings

 

2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

 

What do you think of when you think of strength and power?  I think of protection and safety.  I also think of one who comes along side to help when I am weak and have no physical strength or power of my own to keep going.

 

God is my strength and power.  Many trust in their money, their jobs, their husbands or wives, friends and churches to be there and give them strength in time of trouble.  All of these will fail us at times, but God won't.  He will always be there to hold you up in time of trouble.  His strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)

 

How does God make our way perfect?  I don't know about you, but there are many times when I think of my life as less than perfect.   There are twists and turns in life.  Health problems come; our bodies seem to fall apart.  Things go wrong in our days and we wonder how this could possibly be perfect.  Of course this is from a purely human point of view.

 

The word perfect in the Hebrew can also mean the following: complete, full, sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), or whole.  Psalm 138:8 says, "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands."  God will bring to completion His perfect plan for your life.  His way may take twists and turns that we don't understand and see as anything but perfect, yet He is working out to perfect completion His plan for your spiritual growth for His glory to be seen in you. 

 

So take heart.  Be encouraged.  He will be your strength and power, your place of protection and safety as He uses the twists and turns of life to bring your way to perfect completion in Him.

 

 

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