{"id":6777,"date":"2019-03-07T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:50:46","slug":"any-old-thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/any-old-thorn\/","title":{"rendered":"ANY OLD THORN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Corinthians 12:7<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em><\/strong>And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In our Scripture for today, Paul shares that he was given a thorn in the flesh. I have heard some who have tried to guess what that thorn was.\u00a0 If it was important we would have been told.\u00a0 By his not naming the thorn we are better able to relate to the thorn that we may have in our own life.\u00a0 I guess you might say;\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe type of thorn does not matter—any old thorn will do!\u00a0 The important thing is not the thorn but the Christ who uses the thorn.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is why it is so essential that we spend much time in prayer, asking God how we should pray.\u00a0 We are too guilty of telling God what to do, instead of listening for His voice.\u00a0 Once Paul learned the secret of the thorn, he could see that the Lord’s strength and power was made perfect in his weakness.<\/p>\n

We may strive to be perfect and have it all put together, but remember the secret of the thorn.\u00a0 It is in our weakness that the Lord’s strength is demonstrated.\u00a0 Paul was so excited about this discovery that he began to delight in his weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it was then that Christ could be seen more clearly.\u00a0 It is not a call to a persecution complex.\u00a0 It is presenting of our body to the Lord as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him as our normal act of worship.<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts!\u00a0\u00a0Walk with God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 Corinthians 12:7 \u201cAnd lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.\u201d\u00a0 In our Scripture for today, Paul shares that he was given a thorn in the flesh. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}