GOD'S STRENGTH IN MY WEAKNESS
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
...Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 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.
Ben is a good hunter, and a great shot with his bow. He has the right tools to get the job done to harvest what he's after. That being said, Ben hunted with my brother and I several times for elk on one of the best ranches in the Rocky Mountains.
Each year that Ben hunted with us he got a chance at a big bull elk. And each year just when the excitement was at it highest and it felt like nothing could go wrong, something did and the feeling of being on the top of the world, came crashing down around us.
Many of know what it is like to feel on top of the world and we also know the feeling of being in the lowest of lows. Too often, when we are so full of ourselves and how great everything is for us... Or how great we are ourselves that we find there is little room for God to work in and through us.
It is in our times of suffering that we have room to allow God to do a mighty work in us. As we hit those lows we need to be watching for the opportunities to allow Him to use the "thorn" that we carry to glorify himself.
Matthew Henry put it this way...
"This is a Christian paradox: when we are weak in ourselves, then we are strong in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; when we see ourselves weak in ourselves, then we go out of ourselves to Christ, and are qualified to receive strength from him, and experience most of the supplies of divine strength and grace."
So when you find yourself weak, allow the great comfort and strength that God provides to fill you. He is strong through our wt
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