Have you ever wondered if God desires us to struggle to be strong or to acknowledge our weakness? Struggling to be strong, for me, has been a calling for most of my life. However, this entire journey, Christ, not me, has been the source of my endurance, purpose and pursuit. In truth, I feel the calling of my struggling to be strong has always been from God; but I’ve been so preoccupied with being strong through Christ’s strength that I’ve overlooked the blessing comfort that flows from acknowledging my weakness.
I expect, even demand, myself to be strong. I climb on Christ’s shoulders to accomplish this. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) None the less, equal reliance on accepting my weakness is demanded to accomplish God’s personal calling for me, and likewise each of you. Acknowledging our weakness lands me, and you, in God’s welcoming, embracing, protective and powerful arms. Maybe God created us weak so that our need would be to continually go back to Him to have our tears wiped away, our failures overcome, our broken hearts healed and our worn souls re-energized with God’s grace as we struggle to be strong for, and through, Him.
Thus, I ask, to be and do what God has created me, and you, to individually attain, do we not need to struggle to be strong and to, also, collapse in our weakness? Bottom line, we are best prepared to be strong in our struggles, if we first, crushed by our weakness, seek refuge in God our Father’s arms. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 