Humanity finds the greatest strength by aggregation. The
larger the number and means, the more ‘powerful’ we as humans feel. God is not
so limited. His power is complete and perfect when He is on His own. He does
not need an army to validate or enforce His position nor manifold riches to
assert or maintain His office. Although He chooses to work via the limited human
agency, His power and work is not restricted to it. He does not need to depend
on the size, quantity or quality of our human input - He chooses to do so, when
it pleases Him and it serves His purposes. The Lord can at His will and
preference, elect to go well beyond our human limits or even bypass our input all
together and there to perform His great acts. Often He selects to use our
‘little’ and make ‘much’ out of it. Like a child who feels he is capable of
doing something well beyond his actual ability, because his parent is holding
and directing his hand, the Lord moves and works in us and causes us to realise
that it is His power and strength through us, that does the work. Whilst we are
left to wonder at the amazing and sometimes ‘beyond-us’ results that can come
from this reliance on Him, we also become very conscious of the reality of His
working by us, and get a measure of our ‘littleness’ and insufficiency without
Him! Jonathan and his armour bearer were a distinct minority and faced with
frightening odds, yet faith and trust in God made them bold and victorious.
Like them, we should never despair at our lack or insufficiency. When we depend
on all-sufficient God we would do well to remember that our limitations and
constraints are not His.
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