He Remembered us in Our Weakness

Meditations for the Season of Advent 

December 20, 2022

He Remembered us in Our Weakness

This will be a sign for you:

you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth

and lying in a manger.”

Luke 2:12 (NRSV) 

In Colossians 1:15-20, the Apostle Paul affirms Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. Jesus is supreme over all creation; through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. Jesus holds all creation together.

Jesus, who is Supreme over all creation, entered our world, not through power or pomp and circumstance. Jesus came in the way of weakness, vulnerability, and dependency on others. On a dark night, in a cold and drafty cave, God in Christ, who always was and always will be supreme over all, was presented to humankind as a helpless God in Christ who calls us to come close to him.

Are you like me? I struggle at times to draw close to God by exercising discipline, practicing discipleship. My desire is to mature into a strong-in-faith, fully-devoted follower of Jesus, but at times, it seems like my progress is only slight. I so need Christmas to remind me, “He remembered us in our weakness. His faithful love endures forever” (Psalm 136:23 NLT).

My Takeaway: Like the Apostle Paul, each time I petition the Lord for strength, I hear Him reply, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.”  By His grace, may I also embrace my weakness as did Paul, “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me” (2 Corinthians 12:9b).

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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