2 Corinthians 12:7-9 says, “To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given to me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My Grace is sufficient for you; 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. ”Talk about powerful stuff! Some things in the bible reverberate repeatedly, and we still don’t get it for some strange reason. We can’t seem to incorporate them into our daily lives. Paul lets us know in the scripture above that there is indeed a reason to accept our shortcomings, flaws, and faults with the basic understanding that it is at these times that God will invariably show up and then proceed to show out.
Can you imagine experiencing the ‘perfect’ power of the Lord? It’s as easy as looking in the mirror and assessing who you truly are in relation to who you should strive to be. The proper description should be that you are who you are only in relationship to God. If you know and accept yourself as a child of God, then you must also be a man or woman of God. The only thing standing in your way is you. If the truth be told, you know you can’t do it alone. You and I need help, and that help comes from only one source. It’s the perfect source, so be prepared to have some difficulty accepting the consequences. The consequence is recognizing a divine purpose in your particular set of weaknesses. Most of us would rather reject the notion of our sinful existence as just that, sinful. This text says our job is to revel in it through thorough spiritual recognition so that God can take over and do His miraculous thing. When you get a hand from the Lord to overcome your addiction, your pride, your vanity, your physical weaknesses, you get so much more than you bargained for. According to this, you also get Christ’s power to work with. Isn’t that something? No wonder Paul continues by saying, ‘That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” By itself, you might wonder how Paul comes up with that conclusion. But when taken in the context of the entire passage, isn’t it true that out of your most impossible situation, when you give your life to Him who loves you more than you love yourself, God’s perfect power rescues you. How many testimonies does it take for you and me to give God the praise He deserves for accomplishing through all of our frailties that we cannot do for ourselves? All I’m trying to say is stop fighting yourself. Stop denying your insecurities and your passions. Accept them and give them over to the Lord. Then step back and watch God do His thing with your life. Be careful, though. When God moves in, the magic happens, and it takes you, all of you, good and bad, to let go and finally let God. SOMETIMES, He does get impatient.
May God bless and keep you always.