Your Grace is Enough

⁹But 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. ¹⁰ 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 Corinthians 12:9-12 (TNIV)

                Our life is never without hardships. But how often do we see the good in our hardships? We are reminded by Paul’s words in the above verses quoted that our weaknesses are there so that God’s power may be made perfect in us. Most of the time, we forget that God does everything for a reason, including allowing us to fail at times. We may not be getting the results we desire, or we may have failed to reach the par in doing something, and we always blame ourselves for not doing any better. That is definitely what Satan wants to do. He wants to destroy us by letting us think that we are useless and cannot become any better.

                However, God has other plans. He knows that if He keeps letting us have our way, winning all the time, we would soon become stuck-up and forget about Him. But even in these failing times, most of us tend to forget to find God in the picture. He allows us to fail so that His power may be seen as fully awesome and sovereign in all His glory. He allows us to fail so that we and others may see the wonders of His awesome power. All the more we should be rejoicing in our affliction, as it is through our failures that God’s power is truly seen as magnificent. We should, like Paul; glory in our sufferings, that Christ may be seen in us and through us.

                For this very reason, if you know me, I do not dwell too much and too long on my sufferings as I know that Christ is in me, working his sovereign power through me that I may be a light to the world. I, too, want to be like Paul, being able to glory in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ. More so, in these End Times, the persecution is rising. May God’s awesome power been made perfect in these situations that through these, many will come to know Him.

                The next time you face any of your weaknesses, or a failure in life, remember to find God in the picture and try and look at it from God’s point of view, why He would allow such a thing to happen. Though most of the time we may not understand God’s plans for us, it would be wise to put our trust in Him completely to lead us in the path that we are to take. God bless you. =)