Choosing Dependency

 1 Samuel 3-5; Psalms 77; 2 Corinthians 8

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

In what ways did Jesus become poor for our sakes?

Although he was fully God and fully man, Jesus chose to fulfill all righteousness at his baptism and rely not on his divinity, but as a man, rely on the power of the Holy Spirit. Satan’s temptations to turn stones into bread, and to throw himself off the temple, were focused on Jesus taking on his divine nature. Instead, Jesus chose to rely on the Spirit and the Word of God to show us how we, too, can live in radical dependency on God. His poverty in the flesh in comparison to his divine nature identifies with our weakness. This is only possible through grace and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Will we, too, rely fully on the food that comes from the mouth of God? And will we, too, rely on the strength of the Holy Spirit?

In our poverty, God’s strength and grace are evident and made perfect.

“Lord Jesus, you are my example of full dependence on the Father for all things. I choose this path, for your glory.”