Our Adequacy Is From God

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 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 from the Lord, the Spirit.  2 Corinthians 3:1-18 NASB

We are again in historical times. This move of God is not just a movement in the church. It is a movement of God’s church into society; rewriting the agendas of education, health, business and lifestyle to align with God’s kingdom…. what if to cast all our cares is to give a hard look at our life and acknowledge it’s man-made stressors like synthetic food, electronics as communication, social media as hobbies, too much information and not enough knowledge, and actually cast it all to Him… let it go, return to the garden, return to walking daily with God, praising Him for all things, worshipping Him with all you’ve got, read the Bible every day, in fact start the day and end the day reading Gods word, …. Worth contemplating, get on your knees before God and pray for discernment and understanding, Holy Spirit knows the answer, He knows the way, the truth, the life, He will give freely when we seek the truth.

In the Old Testament, it's written about Moses in Exodus 33:7, that he used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting”. Verse 9 teaches, as Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the LORD spoke to Moses. 

In the New Testament, it's taught about Jesus in Luke 5:16, “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” And in Mark 1:35, “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed.” 

What we learn from the Bible is that it is not an option to meet with the Lord but it’s a mandate to seek His presence every day.   this is to be our One Desire.  We must have a deep yearning to meet with God. It will require consciously making efforts to know Him better and being aware that Jesus Christ’s presence, power and authority are above all else.  It’s time to tell the world a better story.