Needed Strength For Today

-June 20, 2023-

Good morning, happy Tuesday,

“…As your days so shall your strength be.”

(Deuteronomy 33:25b).

God gives us grace on a daily basis, enough strength to meet and handle each situation that arises at the time when it is needed. We tend worry and be anxious over what might happen instead of trusting in the Lord, praying for His help, and leaving the matter at the throne of grace.

As our days come so comes His strength. God delights to hear and answer our prayers, sometimes in ways completely different than what we prayed. The Lord knows far more than we do. Isaiah 55:8-9 says. “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”

So many times we want tomorrow’s strength today, and God doesn’t work that way. There will be plenty strength for tomorrow, it just won’t come until tomorrow. There are things we don’t think we can handle or cope with but when the time comes we find the peace, comfort, strength, endurance, grace, and mercy to see us through. Then we look back in amazement and appreciation.

Esther would never dreamt that she would be queen of Persia; David would have imagined that he would have taken down Goliath; Peter would never would have thought he would walk on water; Daniel never would have believed that lions would be like kittens in the lions’ den. The list in Scripture is endless. God works miracles in our lives at just the right times and in just the right ways.

God doesn’t say, “As your strength so shall your days be.” That would mean our own strength, knowledge, training, or experience would suffice. No, instead, He says, “As your days so shall your strength be.” Samson was the strongest man, yet he lost his strength when his hair was cut. But when his hair grew and he called on the Lord, he pulled down the great pillars and killed more Philistines in his death than in his life. God answered his prayers and gave him tremendous strength.

The car may breakdown, the doctor may give us months or weeks to live; a loved may suddenly and unexpectedly pass away; we may be laid off; or the teacher may give us a pop quiz. The Lord knows what will happen and how to get us through on eagles’ wings.

The hymn writer Annie Johnson Flint expressed God’s grace and timing with the marvelous words, “He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater, He sendeth more strength when the labors increase; to added affliction He addeth His mercy, to multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, when our strength has failed ere the day is half done, when we reach the end of our hoarded resources, our Father’s full giving is only begun. His love has no limit, His grace has no measure, His power has no boundary known unto men; For out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.”

May the God of hope give us His strength at just the needed time, not one moment too soon or one one moment too late. As our days so shall our strength be. His grace is sufficient for us. Stay safe and healthy.

Being strongest at the weakest times, through grace God given at the needed times,

Dean