As a lamb led to the slaughter, Jesus won His greatest victory on the cross when He opened not His mouth. He was the only one who ad right to scream and scold and vindicate Himself because He had come to die, not for Himself but for the sin of the world. Yet He chose to be silent.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so He opened not His mouth. Is 53:7
His accusers were the very ones He had ministered to. In the end, they cried, "Crucify HIm!! Crucify Him!!!" and chose Barabbas, a rebel a robber and a murderer, above Him ( luke 23:13-25).
i believe God is preparing us to be like the Lamb of God. But many times, we cannot be led to the slaughter because the lamb before the slaughter is dumb and many of us do not want to be dumb. We just want to say a lot of things.
In the presence of God, we see things differently. That is y i ask people not to make decisions when they are angry or in reaction to any circumstance. Always decide after meeting with God. Before meeting Him, we only see everybody else's faults. But once we measure ourselves with the holiness of God, we realize that other people are not the problem. We find to our surprise that we are the problem.
Brokeness Bring Glory
There is a hardness in us tha God wants to break. He wants the defilement to come out. All the pride, bitterness, resentment, hatred,fears and other rubbish that we have kept from the past must not allowed to effect our present lives with Him. He wants to give our temple a through cleansing. There can only happen in His presence.
God is waiting for His house to be ready. The minute His house is ready, He will enter and bring in His glory. Before His glory fills the temple, the temple must cleansed and made holy for His presence to come down.
However, certain things in life, habits and bondage, are really difficult to break. Fasting and praying in the presence of God will hasten the breaking. Even Jesus had to go Gethsemane where He had to submit His will to the will of the Father and embrace the cross ( Matt 26:39).
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