When Divinity Is Provoked

Apostle Grace Lubega

Mark 11:14(KJV); And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

One day, the Christ was hungry. He turned to a tree for food and the tree challenged Him.

I would like to think it dared to question how He could demand fruit when it was not its season to bear fruit. The tree felt justified in its protests.

Unheard to the disciples’ ears, a conversation was ongoing between creator and creature.

Our theme scripture says Jesus ANSWERED it and said, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.”

This tree saw the man but did not behold His divinity. It did not see the crown of influence that He wore as the Christ. In essence, it told Him that it did not respect His image because He had come in the form of a man.

He cursed it.

No pleading, no cajoling, no begging for it to give Him some of its precious fruit. He simply, unhesitatingly and unregretfully cursed it.

Nothing provokes divinity like something or someone that questions God in a human body. He will work to prove Himself true.

That is the greatness of the MYSTERY OF GODLINESS. The Bible says, “And without controversy GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”(1 Timothy 3:16).

When God was manifest in the flesh, the elements of this world questioned His divinity.

What did God do? He justified Him in the spirit.

There are people and other things that question the God in you because they are looking at your height, your age or your lack of connections.

For that reason alone, God is ready to leap to your defence and vindicate you. He is more than eager to demonstrate who He is in you.

You are going to make it in this life because you don’t look like you can. You will succeed and excel in all your endeavours because your confidence is not in what you have but Who you have, the Almighty God is on your side. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 Corinthians 1:27

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Nothing provokes divinity like something or someone that questions God in a human body. He will work to prove Himself true.

PRAYER: Loving father, I thank you for who I am in you. You have conformed me to the very image of Christ. Creation obeys me because I bear the spirit of dominion. I am vindicated by you in all that I do because you prove yourself strong on my behalf. To the glory of your name. Amen.