Son Michael age 4 as "The Batman"
“My grace is sufficient for you! My power is perfected in your weakness!”
Now this is really hard to swallow!
For us weakness is failure and defeat!
That’s why we are so motivated to make ourselves perfect.
That’s why the best selling section of any bookstore is in self-development.
That’s why we are so private when it comes to admitting our faults and failures.
That’s why many of us go to church – to LOOK strong and secure.
That’s why we work so hard to hide our weaknesses.
We don’t think that we will be loved or accepted if our weaknesses are showing.
We don’t get it.
God loves us and accepts us despite our weakness.
God loves us and accepts us despite our failures.
God loves us and accepts us despite our sinfulness.
Not only that, but if we will acknowledge our weaknesses and turn them over to God—if we will stop living to please and impress God and simply allow God to come and live in us and through us—then God’s power in us will be perfected.
When we acknowledge our weaknesses and turn them over to God – we experince transformation. As the scripture says, “Old things pass away. Behold, all things become new.”
That’s real victory.
That’s true freedom.
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
Christianity
Related terms: History of Christianity, Origin of Christianity, Brief History Christianity, Basic Beliefs of Christianity, Different Types of Christianity, Beginning of History of Christianity, Christianity Today, Christianity 101
Recent Comments