Present your Weaknesses to God!

Esther 5

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, December 29.

Are you aware of your own weaknesses? Don’t let pride blind you to what has the potential to destroy you (Proverbs 16:18).

Haman is the villain in the story of Esther – he is arrogant, ambitious, and proud. His insatiable appetite for power will lead to his downfall. At the pinnacle of Haman’s success, Esther 5:11-13 highlights how Mordecai’s refusal to bow before him at the king’s gate pokes him right where he is the most vulnerable, in his pride:

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the number of his sons, and every instance where the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him above the princes and servants of the king. Haman also said, “Even Esther the queen let no one but me come with the king to the banquet which she had prepared; and tomorrow also I am invited by her with the king. Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Haman’s ambition blinded him to the trap that was being set for him by Queen Esther. Don’t let your weaknesses cause you to stumble and fall. The Apostle Paul had a weakness too, and he implored the Lord about his “thorn in the flesh” three times, receiving this wisdom from the Lord in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10:

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Seize the moment and present your weaknesses to the Lord; experience the sufficiency of God’s grace.

God bless you!

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