BY GRACE; NOT EFFORT

PROVERB27:1-END

ISAIAH 5:1-END

ISAIAH 44:1-END

As Servants of God we need not to depend on our might or achievement lest we grow pomposity out of ignorant but rather we need to depend on God’s grace seeing ourselves as nobody before God irrespective of what we have accomplished or acquired. Because God does not delight in your strength or effort:

PSALM 147:10

(10)     “He does not delight in the power of the horse

            Nor is he impressed by strong leg of a man

(11)     Jehovah finds pleasure in those who fear him;

            In those waiting for his loyal love”

This is God for you, for some of you who take God for granted, be warned!   ; You don’t share God’s glory without being punished severely. Nebuchadnezzar tried it and ate grass  for seven year as beasts, Herod tried it at the book of Acts 12:22 and the angel of the lord slapped him to death and he was eaten by worms, King Belshazzar  tried it in the book of Daniel 5:5 and the Kingdom was taken away from him. So why must you begin to praise yourself before others instead of others praising God for your life? When other people praise you, you are in trouble and when you praise yourself, you are also in trouble because God had set aside a day for judgment for those that does not give him glory. When your life does give glory to God, God himself will preserve your life.

Proverb 27:1

(1)       “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know

            What a day will bring

(2)       Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth

(3)       A stone is heavy and sand is weighty

            But the irritation cause by a fool is heavier than both”

It is only a fool that exult him/her beyond measure. As servants of most high God we apt to be humble so that his promises to us will come to pass:

ISAIAH 44:1-3

(1)               “Now listen O Jacob my servant

And you, O Israel whom I have chosen

(2)               This is what Jehovah says

Your maker and the one who formed you

Who has helped you from the womb

Do not be afraid my servant Jacob

And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen

(3)               For I will pour out water on the thirsty one

And flowing streams on the dry ground

I will pour out my spirit on your offspring

And my blessing on your descendant”

As you depend on his grace today rather than your strength and effort, God is about to open a door that no man can shut except him God. Remained blessed