Behold My Servant...

To My Girls...

“Behold! My Servant"

Behold! My Servant.  Here it is...three words of advice found several times in Isaiah that would change hearts all over the world if heeded. How was my heart changed the first time...by looking up by faith and beholding Jesus, God's Son, the One who was willing to go to the cross and die for me while I was still dead in trespasses and sins.  The One who lives to make intercession for me.  How is my heart changed now...how is it that I become more like Him...THE SAME WAY...by looking up by faith, surrendering to Him and allowing His grace to pour down like rain and perform beautiful miracles in my heart just as He did at my first cry! 2 Corinthians 3:18: But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit 
of the Lord.

Just like those who looked at the serpent on the pole in the wilderness were healed so am I when I look to Jesus by faith.  So why at times even after salvation do I refuse to look and consciously or unconsciously decide to wallow in whatever slough into which I may have fallen?  The answer:  PRIDE.  Sigh...I cry out with Paul.."oh, wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death!" What is the antidote to pride--humility.  If God can become a Man and put aside His deity, humble Himself to the point of death and die for me..so that I could live forever with Him...you would think that I might be able to put aside my self-reliance and pride and look up and acknowledge His Lordship in my life...You would think....but oh how hard it is at times!

The word "behold" means to gaze, to look steadily at.  When I look steadily into the face of Jesus and keep my eyes off people who disappoint and circumstances that distract I am at peace (Isa 26:3) I am changed and become more like Him.  When will I truly realize in my heart that my weakness is a good thing??  It causes me to cry out, it gives me an opportunity to trust Him, it changes me from the inside out and it conforms me into the image of His Son.  He increases and I decrease...I then can reflect Him, the Light of the world, more to the people around me...isn't that my goal???  Isn't that what I want?? So why don't I take advantage of the opportunities He gives me like Paul did. Why was Paul  able to sing in prison and rejoice in tribulation. He knew that the things that were happening to Him would turn out for the furtherance of the Gospel...He knew that Christ was being magnified...He knew that God was able to work perfectly in his weakness...He trusted God to do it.  BECAUSE as it says in 2nd Corinthians 12:9 His grace is sufficient...His strength is made perfect in weakness.  Christ's power could rest upon Him in His weakness...I don't know about you, but that is what I want. I am not quite ready to say "bring it on Lord" but maybe I might have the courage to say Father...let me see those opportunities you give me and put aside me and surrender to your Spirit.

Behold! My Servant...so simple...and as you look you fall deeper and deeper in love and become more like Him!

Love
Mom