• Looking at a gallon of water in a plastic container hardly suggests that it has any power. But if it seeps into the crack of a rock or a cement road and turns into ice, the rock and the road will split into pieces. If the water is turned into steam it can drive the pistons of a large engine and turn into a massive amount of power. Water has the potential to do many great things.
• So do we.
• When we become Christians, God empowers us to change our lives into something completely different and special. Paul in our Scripture for today teaches us that there are four things that Christ can do for us:
• 1. He gives us wisdom. By walking with Him and listening to Him, we hear the truth because He is the expert in living.
• 2. He is righteousness. Righteousness in Paul's writings always means a right relationship with God. We can never achieve a right relationship with God through ourselves or what we do - only through Christ.
• 3. He is holy. It is only through the presence of Christ in our lives that we can be or become all that God intends or expects us to be or become.
• 4. He is deliverance. Only Christ can deliver us from our past sin and present helplessness to sin and Only He can deliver us from our slavery to sin and set us free from self-destruction.
• Prayer: Lord, help us to understand the goodness of Your grace and the power of Your presence in our lives. With You, all things are possible - most importantly salvation. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
• Scripture for Today: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not --to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord."