I had a final written assignment that took more than 12 painful hours, all day Wednesday, and left me feeling like I'd run a race with a back pack of full of rocks for fun. Misery and exhaustion. The textbook was as useless as instructions from a Silicone Valley manual: they would be clear to someone who already totally understood everything and didn't need it to begin with.
You have your unique challenge(s) today, this week just as hard for you. You have your own back pack, your own rocks weighing you down.
God sees us and our individual needs, and reaches down to each of our lives with his extravagant mercy and grace if we let him. We know that sometimes he is most glorified in healing them or taking them away completely--we have all seen miracles. Praise his name for those!
Other times, though, he doesn't take away the challenges; instead he comes into them with us, and shows his strength by working through them, as he is in my life and yours. It certainly isn't easy, but his grace fills our lives. It makes all the difference.
None of this is new. But our memories are short. It's a daily battle to give HIM the back pack.
Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in your weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me. Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
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