Jesus Calling

December 20
Thoughts to Ponder based on Jesus Calling
"Jesus was taunted and tempted to display more of His awesome power than God's plan permitted."

Jesus was tempted and taunted...to perform miracles...to prove that He was the Savior.
I love it how God is only going to allow the amount of power that is needed in my life, at just the right time.
God holds back so I hold onto Him.

How do I taunt and tempt Jesus and God to show me more of His power?
If I got all that I wanted right now..why would I even go to the Lord?
When Jesus was born, we needed Him. There was a need. God threw up his hands...and said to Jesus....”Go down there my boy....it is time. They are really messing up. Let's show them who we are and offer to them what they really need."
So off Jesus came...to be born, in a manager..to walk through life as "man"...all so we could live with Him in eternity. He gave us all that we needed on that cross. It is finished. His ultimate power revealed to us through His resurrection. How powerful is that? What more could I want.
Jesus could have got off that cross in a second..but He didn't...even when the people were "taunting and tempting" Him...as show in Luke 23...
" 35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

There Jesus was on the cross....just waiting....to fulfill His purpose...He could have saved Himself and got off that cross...but instead He stayed....He hung onto God through the process because He knew what He was there to do.

Am I hanging on? Am I hanging on while I am waiting, resting on God’s promises? Am I getting off the cross too soon because I don’t see God...don’t feel God?
Do I believe that God is waiting for the perfect time to reveal Himself to me...so He can be glorified?
Was it worth it for Jesus to hang on for us?
Will it be worth it for me to continue to hang on?

God is always revealing His power, even when I don't feel like He is...when I don't visibly see it in my circumstances. There is so much power just in His name...just in my sitting at His feet....as Jesus is always calling me to "be still" and sit with Him..and enjoy just Him...because He already gave me all that I need. He already did the most powerful work in my heart...in the world. He died, He rose...and He will come again.

I will be thankful for His power...His miracles...as I am a miracle. I am a product of His power. I will live forever...what more could I want.
From the words of the Psalmist...in 92....
1 It is good to praise the LORD
and make music to your name, O Most High,
2 proclaiming your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp.

4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD;
I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5 How great are your works, LORD,
how profound your thoughts!

I thank you my Lord for your patience with me, when I am so impatient. I thank you my Lord, for giving me everything, when I am crying out for more. I thank you my Lord, for your grace, when I turn from your ways and take my own path. I thank you my Lord, for your Son...who hung on that cross for me. I thank you my Lord, for hanging onto me...so I can hang onto you.
Thank you for giving me your all..so I can have it All...in you.