Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Power in Weakness

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.
2 Corinthians 12:9


God's strength is made perfect- it finds its full end, it is completed, it is perfectly accomplished- in our weakness. This means that when you are at your weakest, God can use you most. When you can do nothing on your own, God can do everything through you. In fact, it is often when we can do nothing on our own that God sees fit to use us.

John Piper puts it this way. “We think that all we have is weak and small and God makes it big. Barren Sarah gives birth to the child of promise. Gideon’s 300 men defeat 100,000 Midianites. A slingshot in the hand of a shepherd boy brings the giant down. A virgin bears the Son of God. A boy’s five loaves feed thousands... This is God’s way- to take all boasting off of man and put it on God” (Piper, p19-20, Hidden Smile of God).

So don’t hide your weaknesses. Boast in them. Your weaknesses are just another way for God to work in you. In fact, they just may be the platform of your greatest ministry. So take your weaknesses to God. Take all the problems, the obstacles, all the things that you can’t do on your own and ask Him to use them to do something great!

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