Friday, February 20, 2015

JUST FLAWED AND WEAK




We need to quit fighting our weaknesses and realize that true strength is actually found in them, according to 2 Cor 12. If you are like me, then you are often times ashamed before the Lord that you are so feeble and weak. The things you want to do you don’t seem to do and yet the things you don’t want to do are the easiest things to give in to and while it is very hard to comprehend, it is that very place that we must get before the Lord steps up to the plate in our place, to do that which we cannot do. It is through our adversity that our fleshly and common sense of things are brought to light by the hand of God. But once we see that light, we know that we have seen truth and that is what sets us free. When you think about the life of Peter you may see him as a flawed, indecisive weakling who kept disappointing the Lord by his distractions and fears. Yet, in spite of his short comings, Peter choose to go back each time he failed and try it again as he placed his feeble faith in what his heart compelled him to do, trust. It is not easy walking on water and we would be wise not to be so quick to judge him for sinking.
 
For like Peter, sometimes the course that Jesus charts for our life is directly into a storm as well. Jesus will meet us there as the storms rage around us and as with Peter, at just the right time, He will reveal Himself to us in that storm and our joy will deepen as we reach out and trust Him, because we have realized that we are too weak and cannot make it ourselves. Paul felt weak as well. His weakness was humility and showing Christ’s power. That’s why God made sure Paul had his weaknesses. They were meant to keep him “from becoming conceited” and to give him a more obvious experience of the power of Christ in his own life. In my own struggles, I try so hard sometimes to do my very best in overcoming my weakness in my dieting and caring better for my health. But I find myself often times saying I just can’t do this thing on my own. I am learning though that God has ordained that in my life as a thorn to buffet me, through genetics or life-experience, we all are flawed, limited, broken, weak. While we all suffer with different areas of weaknesses, our struggle is the same. God is trying so hard to teach my tough thick hard head that, it is when I surrender to Him that I cannot do it, that my flesh is rendered weak enough for God to take control and give me the strength I need. Paul asked that God would take his weakness away in 2 Cor 12, but God said no. Which means that sooner or later, we should stop praying against the weakness and accept it as God’s design for whatever character that He is trying to build in us and for the glory of Christ in us. We must all decide for ourselves if we are to bare the burdens of our weaknesses until they teach us the lessons that we must learn. I am learning that God is all sufficient for my every need, but if I am to call Him, “Lord, Lord”, then I must do that which He tells me to do. Though I am flawed and weak, I have found Him to be a strong tower to which He never fails!

Loving on you today sweet friend,
Bren

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