"Strength to Deliver"

"They told him, 'This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them."
(Isaiah 37:3, NIV)

The king was right, not only in the immediate peril of war, but of life itself.  How many times we, "come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver...."  It is at this point Sovereign Grace rules.

I wrote this on Facebook the other day.  "World religions emphasize what you do.  Christianity emphasizes what Jesus did."  Spurgeon once said, "My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."  This is not the age old Calvinist/Arminian debate.  Extremist on either side are not Biblical.  They are "ism" oriented.  But today, beware of that "free will" which is worshipped by too many.  Joshua warned the Jews of following the Ark too closely, "free will" at work, doing what we want, when we want, where we want, if we want.  This has absolutely nothing to do with life in Jesus Christ.  "If you abide in My word, you are my disciples indeed."  The only good in my "free will" is when that "will" surrenders absolutely to Jesus Christ.

The Bible does speak of our choices, what is popularly called our "free will."  But beware of "free-will"-worship.  It got us into more trouble than anything in our lives.  Worship the Father, Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, Who Alone, when we, "come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver"----------------------------------------- will!

Father, in Jesus' Name, keep me suspicious of too much "free will" talk. Amen.
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Read a Black Women's warning of Obama worship at:
www.apf327.blogspot.com

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2