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📖 Bible
Meditation No. 1787
🔆 AATHAVAN –
Monday, 29.12.2025
“Not that we are adequate in
ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is
from God.”
(2 Corinthians 3:5)
Today’s meditation verse helps us recognize our human inadequacy and God’s abundant grace.
Many people today live with a high opinion of their limited abilities. Music, acting, singing, writing, eloquence, wealth, status, and authority—there are many things in which people take pride. But before God, all these are insignificant and worthless. If God has given us these abilities, we ought to live in gratitude to Him, not in pride over them. Boasting in such gifts is sheer foolishness.
“Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?” (Romans 9:21)
According to this verse, God, the heavenly Potter, has formed every human being according to His sovereign will. God has a purpose for each person—not to gain fame in this world, but to see how faithfully we use the gifts entrusted to us in accordance with His will.
Beloved, we need not worry when we think about our inadequacy or our lowly state. God can exalt or humble anyone at any time. Knowing this truth, Mary sang:
“He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart. He has brought down rulers from their thrones And has exalted those who were humble. He has filled the hungry with good things; And sent the rich away empty-handed.” (Luke 1:51–53)
In this passage we read, “He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.”
Yes, beloved, living with the attitude “I achieved everything by myself” is pride. God scatters such proud-hearted people, but He lifts up the humble.
That is why the Apostle Paul declares:
“Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.” (2 Corinthians 3:5)
Even if we possess greater talents, wealth, good employment, or authority than others, let us not boast, but live in thanksgiving to God. Let us live with a reverent awareness that our abilities, wealth, and positions can disappear in a moment if God so wills.
This truth becomes very clear when we read about Job in the Bible. Did not Job, who once lived as a wealthy and influential man, lose everything in a single day? And did he not receive double of all that he had lost by the grace of God? Yes, beloved, we are not sufficient in ourselves; our sufficiency is from God. Therefore, let us live with this understanding, in the fear of God.
God’s Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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