Posts Tagged ‘strength’
choose weakness
It seems like I’ve read the Beattitudes a million times, but I’ve never seen the common theme like I do now. Those Jesus calls “happy” in Matthew 5 have one thing in common. They are weak. The meek, the hungry, the poor, the persecuted. They all come from a place of natural disadvantage. It might as well read, “Happy are you when you are obeying God and find yourself at a disadvantage before the world and its system.” Hmmmm, sounds like a familiar passage in Paul’s writings:
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. (2 Cor 12:9-10).
God is challenging me with this. “If you have a choice, every chance you get and in every occasion as you follow me, choose the position of weakness; my strength is made perfect in weakness.” If you’re hesitant to step out and obey something God told you to do because it puts you in a place of weakness, take heart and check this out…
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. (Rom 8:26)
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. (1 Corinthians 1:25)
