Not your power and might

then you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth. – Deuteronomy 8v17

We cannot ever really hope to comprehend the mind or the plans of God, but God graciously allows us to get a glimpse of why He does what He does.

Here is more instruction on what He allows, or even leads His people to go through tough times.

There is a tendency in our hearts to ‘think more highly than we ought to think.’ Because of that God sometimes allow us to get into situations that we can’t get out of to teach us to rely on Him. He wants us to know that He is the only one who is able so that we will learn to turn to and rely on Him. This is typical of His great love, because left to our own devices we are going to blow it.

We are reminded of this truth in 1 Corinthians 1 where God tells us the kind of people He uses. He tells us there that He uses the most unlikely, the poor, weak, base, and foolish to do His work.

Why is that so important? ‘That no flesh should glory in His presence,’ God says.

All glory belongs to Him. We are walking on dangerous ground when we start to think that we accomplish anything in our own power and our might.