GOSPEL CORNER : THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH TO BE HIS PEOPLE, HIS TREASURED POSSESSION.

26/02/24

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
TODAY’S WORD

FLAWS AND ALL
Today’s Scripture
Deuteronomy 7:6, NIV
The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

TODAY’S WORD
It’s interesting that the twelve-thousand-pound block of marble that Michelangelo used to carve his magnificent sculpture of David had been twice discarded by other famous sculptors.

They thought it had too many flaws, imperfections, and blemishes in the marble’s grain. Michelangelo saw the same defects, but he looked beyond the imperfections. He said, “I see a masterpiece in this rock.”

Similar to the two artists, other people may look at you and say, “They’ll never amount to much. Look at their failures and weaknesses and mistakes.” All they see are your flaws. They may write you off. But God says, “I see flaws and weaknesses, but I also see a masterpiece. I see a blessed, strong, forgiven, favored child of the Most High God.” He knows how to make you and mold you to where the best you comes out. You may see yourself as the failed you, the broken you, the guilty you, but the true you is still in you. You’re about to become the masterpiece God created you to be, the blessed you, the faithful you, the honored you, the righteous you.

PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that You created me to be a masterpiece, to be Your prized possession. Thank You that You saw all my flaws and weaknesses but looked beyond my imperfections. I believe that the blessed me, the faithful me, the righteous me will show out. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

SECTION TWO

Beloved, when you depend on God’s wisdom to succeed today, you will see whatever you do prosper. Simply observe how our Lord Jesus always flowed in divine wisdom in His earthly ministry. For example, look at what happened when the Pharisees brought the woman caught in adultery to Him.

The Pharisees came to Him and quoted from the law, saying, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” (John 8:4–5).

They thought that they had succeeded in trapping Jesus because if He told them to stone her, then they would accuse Him of not demonstrating the forgiveness and grace that He had been preaching about. If He were to say that they should not stone her, then the Pharisees would accuse Him of breaking the law of Moses and bring a charge against Him.

The Pharisees were probably gloating over the clever trap that they had devised. That is why they confronted Jesus in the public area around the temple. They wanted to embarrass Him in front of the multitudes that had come to hear Him teach.

Now, observe the wisdom of Jesus in operation. He simply told them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first” (John 8:7).

What majesty! They came to Jesus with the law of Moses and Jesus gave them the perfect standard of the law. Without flinching, He simply challenged the person who was perfect before the law to cast the first stone.

The Pharisees who had come to ensnare Jesus began to walk away one by one, completely silenced. This same Jesus, with all His wisdom, is today our ascended Christ, who is seated at the Father’s right hand, and whom the Bible says is “made unto us wisdom!”

From this and other accounts of Jesus in the Gospels, we see how in everything He does, our Savior is altogether lovely. He is never early, never late. He is always at the right place at the right time. He is always in perfect peace and there is no sense of hurry about Him.

When it was time to be tender, He was infinitely gentle, gracious, and forgiving—we see this from His response to the woman caught in adultery (John 8:10–11). When it was time to overturn the tables of the money changers, He did it with passion.

He was never frazzled by the Pharisees’ attempts to trip Him up and was always flowing with divine wisdom. He is steel and velvet, meekness and majesty, perfect manhood and deity.

This is Jesus and you are in Him! Begin to see yourself in Christ, who is always flowing with divine wisdom, always in control of the situation, and the same wisdom that flows in Him will flow in and through you.