Strength in Weakness

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 5, 1902

Strength in Weakness

If Christ had come to the high priest in pomp and royal majesty, like an earthly king, the priest would probably have recognized him. No; he could not have recognized him except by the Holy Spirit, no matter in what form he came; but he would at any rate have bowed before him. But he did not know that the weakness of God is stronger than men, and that God chooses the weak things, and even things which are not, to bring to naught things that are. The infant Jesus, borne in the arms of that poor woman, whose extreme poverty was indicated by the birds that she brought as an offering, instead of a lamb, was “the power of God.” Yea, he was “the salvation of God.” Nothing is weaker than a babe. The young of humankind are more helpless than those of any of the lower orders of creation. Never can we be more helpless and dependent than Christ was at that moment; yet When he was the power of God; for God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. This is to teach us that at our lowest and weakest state we may be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. We are to recognize and confess Christ in our own bodies, even in our weak and sinful flesh. As surely as any man does this, he will be victor over all the power of the enemy; for the Word is indeed nigh us, in our mouth and in our heart, so that “if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” — Selected.