” My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9
” That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships and persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:10
In comparing myself to the rest of the world I would consider myself to be weak and not strong. I am not the tallest or the most muscular or the best-looking person around. I don’t consider myself to be a great orator, a great student of learning or the most caring person I can be. My faults as a human are much greater in length than my strengths in this life. However, what I have found is that I was made by my God in heaven, and I was made like I am for a reason. With our birth into this world, we bring our faults with us. We bring our impurities and our sins because we are all born into this world as sinners. I am so blessed to have a God in heaven who is so gracious to me that he allows himself to be strongest in my weaknesses. It is when I am down and out that He is the strongest. It is when I have reached the wall of no return that He is there to help me. It is when I have no other place or person to turn to that He is there to pick me up and deliver me. I have learned (and it has taken me a long time for I am a slow learner) that when I am weak, I must continue to be joyful. For when I lose my joy, I lose the strength my God so generously gave to me. I must continue to be joyful even if I don’t consider myself to measure up to others in this world. I must continue to look to Jesus as my answer and believe his word when he tells me that he is with me, he is before me, and he is by my side. There is nothing in this world that can take my joy away. I only lose it if I give it away. There is not fault that I have as a temporary resident of this world that can strip me of my joy. What I must not do is forget who made me and continue to worship Him in all matters of my life. I must always remember that when I am at my weakest is when I am strongest! PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL SITUATIONS!
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