Have you ever felt overwhelmed by life?  Maybe it just seems like one challenge after another just keeps heading your way.  Yesterday I was having a conversation with a friend who is going through such a stretch right now.  He brought up 2 Corinthians 12 as being of comfort to him through this time so I thought I would share it with you today.

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 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. 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.

We don’t know what this thorn was for Paul.  It could have been a regular every day annoyance or it could have been something much more significant.  That is not the point. The point is that Paul reminds us that God’s grace is sufficient for us in our times of struggle.  God’s power is strongest in our lives when we feel the most weak.  I don’t know about you but for me that thought is comforting.  When I feel weak I am truly at my strongest because of God’s strength.  Today whether you are feeling weak or strong rest in the truth that God is with you and His strength is made perfect in your weakness. 

In His Grip,
Pastor Dave