FEBRUARY 9
MIGHTY BY HIS SPIRIT
“This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” (Zech. 4:6)
How desperately the world seeks to marshal their forces, to give a show of
strength, to unify and consolidate, so that by the very weight of their numbers
they hope to gain an advantage. While in contra-distinction to this, God is
separating, drawing to Himself in a path of aloneness, to “take you one of a
city, and two of a family, to bring you to Zion,” (Jer. 3:14). As we are
stripped of all human resource, no might or power in ourselves wherein we can
trust, then out of this sphere of our nothingness He shall arise, totally
triumphant.
The Lord would apprehend a man to bring deliverance to His people Israel, and He
sent an angel to appear unto Gideon while he was threshing wheat by the
winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. The angel said to him, “The Lord is
with thee, thou mighty man of valour,” (Judges 6:12). But Gideon immediately
challenged the whole statement. “Oh, my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then
is all this befallen us? And where be all His miracles which our fathers told us
of?” “And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou
shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites.” Because Gideon recognized
his own lack, his emptiness, his weakness, God looked upon it as MIGHT, because
when this weakness was turned over to God, then it entered into a new dimension
– and the Spirit became the power for His victory.
The world would seek for talents rare, the gifted men, the doctrinaire, The
outer form with beauty fair, and on them all its glory share.
The noble and the mighty rise to blaze across the azure skies,
To claim again some earthly prize, their hopes and dreams immortalize.
How different is the higher way, as God doth mold vessels of clay. To choose the
weak to take the prey, the things of naught for vict’ry’s day.
For thus He strips and bruises sore, and multiplies the pressures more;
Then uses troubles for the door into His fullness, heav’nly store.
Ray Prinzing
Sister Doris Prinzing
1130 Allumbaugh St. Apt 257
Boise, Id 83704-8700
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