UCB WORD FOR TODAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2025 – (TUESDAY DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE)
Read UCB Word For Today 18th February 2025 Daily Devotional by United Christian Broadcasters
TOPIC: Everybody has a Thorn (1)
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‘A thorn in the flesh was given to me.’
2 Corinthians 12:7 NKJV
Paul writes: ‘A thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me…For when I am weak, then I am strong’ (vv. 7-10 NKJV).
Paul had such great faith that when he prayed, the sick were healed and the dead were raised. Yet, he prayed repeatedly that God would remove his ‘thorn in the flesh’, and God said no. Why? To keep him humble and make him totally dependent on God. We don’t know what Paul’s thorn in the flesh was, but we know why he had it: ‘Lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations’ (v. 7 NKJV).
When God blesses you greatly, with it comes the risk of pride. And with God, that’s a disqualifier. If you have ever had a splinter in your finger, you know it throbs with pain and constantly irritates you. Can you live with it? Yes. Would you rather not? Yes. Note what Paul says: ‘A thorn in the flesh was given to me.’ Not only does he come to see his thorn as a grace developer, but a gift that does two things: 1) Humbles us and makes us more dependent on God. 2) Makes us more tolerant and gracious since everybody has a thorn.
Leviticus 11-12, Matthew 26:1-25
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