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Zechariah 4.6 (NIV)
“Not by might nor by power,
but by my Spirit,” says the Lord almighty.
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| When was the last time you attempted something so big you needed God’s help to pull it off?* |
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These words, recorded by Zechariah and spoken by God to Zerubbabel, should be
our motto.* We could put it on T-shirts and bumper stickers. For
Zerubbabel, God’s promise assured him that the resources and manpower he had
would be enough to complete the task of rebuilding the temple.
We can testify to times in our lives when the
obstacles were so overwhelming that only the hand of God could have brought us
through it. Whether it was at your job, in your personal life, or in Kingdom
work, you knew that without God’s intervention, you would not have been
successful.
But what about the tiny little complications of life
that you have navigated so capably? Did you think you managed those all by
yourself? Just because it wasn’t a monumental obstacle, did you think that God
didn’t care? Most of us spend our days putting out little fires and handling
minor “urgencies” and we think nothing of it. It’s what we do.
Like the people of Jerusalem in this story, we often
have “false grounds of confidence.”* The fact is, I accomplish
nothing by my might or by authority
from others. I may get things done but on my own I am powerless to make a
difference. What I do only accomplishes God’s purpose when his Spirit works. No
matter what my resources – even with an army – I still rely on God to get the
job done.
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| We do not sufficiently exalt the power of God, unless we think it to be greater than our weakness.* |
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