Wednesday // 4th September 2024
Message of the Cross is the Power of God!
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
—1 Corinthians 1:18
Gospels reveal Jesus was Lord over creation: fish swam into nets at his command; he walked on water and calmed the storms with a word. He healed the sick, the deaf, the blind, the lepers, and the disabled. No form of sickness was outside his powerful, creative, and regenerative love. He was the Lord over the demonic. Those held in the vise of Satan were set free with just a word from Jesus; the demons knew they were dealing with the Son of God. In other religions people reached after God, but in our foolish story God reached out for us. Humility and apparent foolishness are the doorposts into this seemingly strange kingdom of God.
Jesus went through life one day at a time, one meal at a time, just like his contemporaries, but he never seemed rushed, never appeared out of control, never lacked time for the people who approached him. Jesus would constantly get out of his own self and place himself in the midst of someone else’s story. Jesus didn’t see the outcasts as irredeemable; he saw them as invaluable and irreplaceable—not outcasts, but offspring who could be adopted into his family.
Was it foolish for the Son of God to forgo coronation before crucifixion? To suffer as a criminal when he could have been crowned king? Powerful regimes usually change people from the outside in; but Jesus’ influence changed people from the inside out. This is why He is my Savior … Hallelujah 🙌🏻
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin