Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion
Not by struggle, but by an encounter
Hebrews 8:4
When we pray for healing in a church service or gather together to break bread – that we may praise the Lord – there is one thing , which we should always remember. God’s healing power is not from our strength, nor from strength itself, but from His Holy Spirit. Until the Lord builds the house, we labor in vain to build it. As God visits His people again and again in His flesh through His plan of grace, we have an irresistible opportunity to be delivered from the struggles of people. Now it is not because of the arms of this body, but now it is the grace of God.
After the Jews crossed the Jordan, which depicts the grace of God’s blood, they settled in Gilgal. Gilgal is special because it tells about the city of unconditional or resurrected love. We no longer love in relation to our experience, or our ability to think, but now we love because of a perfect, unconditional love, which is given because of Jesus’ salvation. At all times we find ourselves trusting in the arms of eternal grace.
There is nothing we can do there, but to exercise ourselves in faith by grace to receive our healing, to be delivered by the still, small voice of true spirituality, and to lay hold of His body continually. Thank God today, that He has met His people by grace, and not by our works. There is no objection to the psalmist writing, (Psalms 8:4) What then is man, and do you care for him? And what is the son of man, and do you look upon him?
