Remind me who I am, and for whom I live, Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "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. 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."
When entering a situation already worrying about my weaknesses, focus not on where you're worried to fail, but on how awesome it is that when we are weak, He is strong!
He picks up my slack, that HE is strong in my weaknesses.
That's what came to me as I sat in my car, prepping myself to enter a social situation that I wasn't all too excited to enter. I'll be the first to admit, I'm not the quickest to open my Bible and pray at random moments, but recently I've found myself doing exactly that.
He wants me to be strong in Him, not myself. There's no hope for me to be confident in myself, I worry more than most and care far too much of how other's perceive me. But in that deep weakness, He's able to show just exactly how strong He is! To remind me that there is nothing I can be that He can not work with, all to His glory. That literally, the times when I am struggling the most is when He can be obviously present. It can be easy to become confident in our own strength when things are going well, but there will always be some situation that brings us back to our knees to remind us that we simply can not handle what this world entails, yet another reason we need Him, our Savior. - And that's okay! We are made to need Him! It's beautiful! So many times I feel sad in my weaknesses because I want to be strong FOR Him, when I forget that I'm made strong, THROUGH Him.
And that's just pretty darn awesome.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "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. 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."
When entering a situation already worrying about my weaknesses, focus not on where you're worried to fail, but on how awesome it is that when we are weak, He is strong!
He picks up my slack, that HE is strong in my weaknesses.
That's what came to me as I sat in my car, prepping myself to enter a social situation that I wasn't all too excited to enter. I'll be the first to admit, I'm not the quickest to open my Bible and pray at random moments, but recently I've found myself doing exactly that.
What a difference it can make.
I wasn't sure what I needed to pray about, but I knew I was nervous and already scared of my own weaknesses, so in lifting that up to God I was brought to the aforementioned verse and my spirit was calmed before I stepped forward with my day; freshly renewed with His strength. He wants me to be strong in Him, not myself. There's no hope for me to be confident in myself, I worry more than most and care far too much of how other's perceive me. But in that deep weakness, He's able to show just exactly how strong He is! To remind me that there is nothing I can be that He can not work with, all to His glory. That literally, the times when I am struggling the most is when He can be obviously present. It can be easy to become confident in our own strength when things are going well, but there will always be some situation that brings us back to our knees to remind us that we simply can not handle what this world entails, yet another reason we need Him, our Savior. - And that's okay! We are made to need Him! It's beautiful! So many times I feel sad in my weaknesses because I want to be strong FOR Him, when I forget that I'm made strong, THROUGH Him.
And that's just pretty darn awesome.
