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
