recently i was given the challenge to just be weak...anyone who really knows me, knows that it is hard for me to reveal and accept my weaknesses and let others help. i tend to bottle it up inside of me and to just keep pushing through life.
but then i found this:
but he said to me, "my grace is sufficent 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, i insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. for when i am weak, then i am strong. 2 corinthians 12:9-10
God's strength is all that i need. i don't need to rely on my own strength.
then just last weak i got a really cool analogy from God cause i know i'm not smart enough to come up with it on my own.... so i have a massive bruise on my right arm from where i tried to give blood and the nurse ended up sticking the needle straight through the vein and busting the blood vessel. my arm was swollen and hurting anytime i tried to move it, and i could not life much with my right arm for a couple days. i also have some scars on, get this, my right hand/arm, from previous injuries. so here it is: i am right handed so that is my strong arm, but even at my strongest i can't protect myself, and do things on my own, i have to rely on God's strength!
God totally used my ridiculous experience with the blood drive to remind me of His strength once again and my need to surrender control and just be weak!
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