“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
This is a great line. Not only because of its meaning, but because it shows that God was speaking to Paul. That's no small thing.
But, what I want to write about today is the fact that God uses our inadequacies to glorify himself. If you look through all the heroes of the bible (or at least most of them), they aren't the first-born....the strong....the mighty. They are usually the weak, the least, the youngest, the forgotten, the misplaced. God uses these broken people. I often hear people say they are going to do ________ as soon as I get my life right. That's completely the wrong viewpoint. God uses our weakness. He wants us to be weak so we will rely on him, and realize we would fail if he didn't show up.
Its such a counter-intuitive thought process.
Its a tough one to live in everyday.
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10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
ReplyDeletelike your message. it is in the most challenging times of life i clearly rely most on God. then when its smooth sailing i get self absorbed. i don't want rough times but I do see how growth occurs during those times.
knut