Andrew Elkins
II Corinthians 12: 9
April 1, 2014
But his answer was: “My grace is all you need for my power is greatest when you are weak.” I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ’s power over me.
We are weak and not accepting this weakness is the definition of pride, or hubris to be exact. We have to accept that we can’t, in our weakness, help ourselves, and that is God’s glory. When we accept our weakness, God get’s to show off his skills. In our weakest moments, when an ant seems to be an elephant, God is there to lift us up and raise us higher.
Every time I get frustrated with MY inability to make things go my way, I fall really hard. I bet we all get down when our frailty slaps us in the face. However, it’s these times that God makes some thing in our lives go just right. It’s these times we are given a glimpse of what God can do for us when we bend our knee to the Lord. Our letting God overcome our weakness is a sort of worship, in that we glorify God by admitting that we are weak.
I have fallen, Lord.
As hard as I try, I cannot rise.
O Lord, raise me up. Amen.
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