When you see parents truly tender toward a weakness in their child, you are seeing God's love at work.
There is no greater view of God entering our lives than our embrace of each other's weaknesses. And perhaps there is no greater view of the enemy of God than a lack of compassion for each other.
Compassion drives out evil and allows God to enter in instead. Compassion, authored by the Holy Spirit, is God's victory in this life.
It is the overwhelming compassion of Jesus that led him to die for our sin, our weaknesses.
It is compassion that drives healing--not judgment, not criticism. We find God personal and present when we allow his acceptance of our weaknesses to drive us into his arms of mercy.
If you have known human acceptance of your weakness, how much greater is God's acceptance of you--and me--just as we are!
There is no barter, no grooming, no getting ready or rid of our weakness to set the stage for God to be present; God enters our lives as we receive his embrace of our weakness. In Luke 10, Jesus says:
"...the great triumph is in God's authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you--that's the agenda for rejoicing."His presence, what he does for us, his compassion for our weaknesses, our invitation to enter into the very mercy of God--for all this, we need only give ourselves permission to let our hearts be melted.
Lord, I accept your embrace of my weaknesses. Help your compassion lead me to embrace others with your freeing love.
Tomorrow: The confidence to develop God-given strengths.
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