Prone to Wander by Natalie Brand

Author:Natalie Brand [Brand, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christianity
ISBN: 9781527102088
Publisher: Christian Focus
Published: 2018-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

Beggars before Christ

Jonah was a high-profile preacher who disobeyed God and got more than just stuck in a puddle of fish phlegm; death was so close he could taste it (Jonah 2:1-7). He became a perfect picture of spiritual weakness and helplessness. He couldn’t buck up and break out. He couldn’t enter his ‘mind-palace’ to outwit the fish or God. In Jonah chapter 2 we find him begging for God to hear him. He throws himself on God’s grace because he knows without it he is lost forever.

We are all weak and in glorious need of Christ. For it was ‘while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly’ (Rom. 5:6). There is a legend that written on a scrap of paper, or from his lips, Martyn Luther’s last words were:

We are beggars. This is true.

We are all beggars before Christ; prophets and preachers included. We are the leper who got on his knees and begged Jesus to heal him (Mark 1:40) and the woman who stealthily touched Jesus because she was desperate to be healed of her bleeding (Mark 5:25-34). Whether the gospel is new to us or we have preached it for decades is irrelevant. As Christians, we are those who have cried out with the blind man at the roadside of Jericho: ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ (Luke 18:38).

If you are broken and desperate for God’s grace to heal and strengthen you, then call on Him. Our God restores the lukewarm and the backsliding with tenderness. ‘A bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not quench’ (Matt. 12:20).

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