Title Matthew 09:18-26 Life's Opportunities
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Life sometimes requires you to experience pain when you don't want it to. But in fact, trials, adversity, and hardships are the part that Almighty God has given to life. Conversely, temptation is a part of man's greed or Satan's share. However, these “nets of trial” of life are opportunities for God's grace to go out to the Lord. Therefore, people of faith should turn this trial opportunity into an 'opportunity of grace' to draw closer to God.
chance of suffering
Today we see two women who have a common denominator: 12 years. Through the two women, we see that the opportunity of suffering has become an opportunity to experience God's grace. Matthew 9 introduces a paralyzed man lying on a bed, a father with a dying daughter, a woman dying of a hemorrhage, two blind men, and a demon-possessed man. Rivers of pain and trials have flowed over all of them, and impassable cliffs imprison them. Thus, the index of suffering of existence in life became enormous, and existence itself would have been a misfortune.
However, there is no hope in life if you let it be as your heart moves. Even in the pouring storm, the ‘will to live’ is necessary. As the index of suffering deepens, we must look only at the cross. Our heart toward God must become stronger. You must have “faith and confidence” that you can overcome suffering, and you will have to rely on the power of God who is good.
chance of faith
The daughter of Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, is dying. Jairus is the head of a group trying to get rid of Jesus Christ. He's tried everything he can do, but to no avail. So there was no more way. The hemorrhagic woman was in the same environment. They couldn't wait to die, so they all came to the Lord. After hearing the rumors, the leader of the synagogue went to the Lord with great respect, confidence, and faith.
“Your faith has saved you.” These words mean that I came to the Lord with confidence, believing that the Lord Jesus had the power to heal. It was the friend who brought the sick man lying on the bed, the woman with a hemorrhage, and Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, both blind men.
God's amazing work of healing is with those who come out with faith in the Lord. This is the faith that believes that the Lord is the Messiah and the Lord of life.
chance for mercy
Failure is not the end of everything. Suffering or adversity does not mean that all doors in life are closed.
You will still have to look at the newly opened roads with the eyes of faith. The greatest war in life is the war with my soul. Don't admit defeat so easily. I may have failed, but God is not failing and is still giving me an ‘opportunity for mercy’.
When all opportunities seem to be gone, look to our Lord, who still gives opportunities for love and mercy to those who come to Him. Even in my life, even in situations where I fall and fall to the ground and seem to have nothing, I do not want to admit my ‘defeat’, but I hope that you will continue to be in my life, come to me with love and mercy, and receive God’s great power to renew.