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James 1:22

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·Do what God’s teaching says; when you only listen and do nothing, you are fooling yourselves [^LBe doers of the word, and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves; Luke 11:28; Rom. 2:13].

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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Sed hacedores de la palabra y no solamente oidores que se engañan a sí mismos.

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But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Daily Devotional by John Piper- August 01, 2024

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Our Weakness Reveals His Worth

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

God's design for suffering is that it magnifies Christ's worth and power. This is grace, because the greatest joy of Christians is to see Christ magnified in our lives.

When Paul was told by the Lord Jesus that his "thorn in the flesh" would not be taken away, he supported Paul's faith by explaining why. The Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). God ordains that Paul be weak so that Christ might be seen as strong on Paul's behalf.

If we feel and look self-sufficient, we will get the glory, not Christ. So Christ chooses the weak things of the world "so that no human being might boast in the presence of God" (1 Corinthians 1:29). And sometimes he makes seemingly strong people weaker, so that the divine power will be the more evident.

We know that Paul experienced this as grace because he rejoiced in it: "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9–10).

Living by faith in God's grace means being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Therefore faith will not shrink back from what reveals and magnifies all that God is for us in Jesus. That is what our own weakness and suffering does.