Displaying God’s Strength in Our Weakness

Series: Cultivate

While the world places a high value on strength, our church is learning to value and live in weakness. Weakness is divinely intended for us by God. Why? Because when we are weak, we are actually strong. You might call it the irony of weakness: God uses humble, reliant people in His plan of redemption.

Reflection Points

• How well do you do weakness? Have you seen weakness as a strength or as a liability?
• What would it mean for you to say, like Paul, ‘I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me?’
• What will it take for you to increasingly display God’s strength in your weakness?

 

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2 Responses to “Displaying God’s Strength in Our Weakness”

1. Ricky Grubb Says:
   June 9th, 2009 at 12:00 am

   Just as the disciples asked Jesus who sinned, the blind man or his parents in John 9, we to have faults and weaknesses not of our own recourse. As God’s children, we sometimes must suffer through our hardships and weaknesses so that we may experience God’s grace and mercy. In the past, this has been a struggle for me. I would always try to have an excuse for why I didn’t, why I can’t, and why I shouldn’t. This gives me the ‘glory’, not God. What a wonderful feeling to now take ownership of my brokenness, to know that I am not perfect in all ways, to understand that I, a jar of clay, through my weaknesses, empowered by the Holy Spirit, give God the platform to show His power, His grace, His mercy, and His glory. In the face of adversity, we are more than conquerers, through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37). So like Paul, I will not be afraid of my weaknesses, I will boast all the more gladly of all of my weaknesses, so that the power, mercy, and grace of Christ may be revealed and rest upon me

2. Evette Hicks Says:
   June 11th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

   I have to admit that I have not liked that quote from Paul about boasting in his weaknesses. It was not that I am not aware that I have plenty of them, I have just never found the church, the body of Christ, very open to admitting that. Today, I see that my weakness and dependence on God allows him to get all the glory. It is not me trying to be so strong, but me being honest that I am not. But choosing to become that clay vessel that God can use. Sometimes I feel so afraid of not meeting the standard or being able to perform that I forget that it is God that can work through any willing vessel, not the well polished, perfect one.
   Thank you, Robert. Thank you Lord for your grace.

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