Daily Devotional

As we deal with trouble, God wants us to demonstrate a different attitude than other people have. God wants us to show that there is an obvious love and joy and peace about our lives that can never be explained in terms of us, but always must be explained only in terms of God at work in us.
“What makes this possible?” Consider verses 10 and 11: “What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, He does in us—He lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us.” Paul affirms that we can walk in victory, regardless of our setbacks. We don’t share Jesus’ moral perfection—His perfect resistance to temptation; His humility and His obedience—but we can share in His character.
On the cross, Jesus was neither powerful nor impressive. The cross was a place of physical weakness; a place where Jesus was willing to lose everything He had and trust God to bring it back and make it significant. That’s where we see His character.
Are we willing to forsake the world’s strength and embrace our own weakness, and then trust God to raise us out of our weakness and use us as tools for His glory and honor? Are we willing to give up everything that means anything to us and be relegated to a place of obscurity, and then trust God to use us as He wills? That’s displaying Christ’s character.
That’s what the cross does for us—it forces us to stop depending on ourselves and trust in God to work in us and through us. And when God does this, we experience transformation, day by day.

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