My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.
2 Corinthinans 12:9
God Strengthens Us
The strength we possess as humans is limited. No matter how many self-help ideas we implement or positive statements we proclaim; our strength will only take us solar. That may discourage some, but hopefully, the truth we read from God’s Word will deposit hope in us instead.
In 2 Corinthians 12, the apostle Paul was sharing about a “thorn in his flesh” that continued to “torment” him. He actually pleaded and begged God to remove it. Each time God told him, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Think about that for a minute. God used this man in influence the early Church and take to gospel to numerous countries. In his moment of weakness, he begs God to help him, and God basically says no. However, God doesn’t stop there. God tells Paul that it’s when he’s weak that the perfect power of God is working best. Imagine that! We need to be weak to see God’s power work best. While we see weak weakness as a barrier, God is using it to uphold us. Our strength as humans may come to a certain level, but with God’s strength boosting us up, there is nothing we can’t endure!
We’re all either in a challenging season or will be in one soon. Life can either bring it gently, or it can hit like an unexpected tsunami. Regardless of how we enter into hard times, we’ll have to learn how to walk through them. We have to rely on God’s help, because what we possess on our own just isn’t sufficient. We need God’s strength.
So, when we’re in a trial where we have our own “thorn in the flesh,” we can derive power by admitting we can’t do it our own and calling out to God. As we navigate the fiery trials in our loves, it’s an opportunity for our faith to be proven genuine. It’s a chance for God’s strength to strengthen us so that we will be “perfect and complete, needing nothing” (James 1:4).
Verses to look up:
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He give strength to the weary and increases the power of the work.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and sound men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my darknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 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.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:2-4
These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of grater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 Peter 1:7
All the love,
Cheyenne
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