My Grace Is Sufficient
Thank God for Another Simply Faith Friday
A while back I said that I would be consistent and show up even when I don’t feel my best. You will have ups and downs in your faith walk. This Simply Faith Friday is written from that vantage point.
Between hormones in my 30s trying to take me out and just plain exhaustion, the Lord has consistently whispered to me this week: You don’t need your strength to accomplish what I am about to do through you.
God has been shifting how I see His strength. This week has been me living out the scripture:
2 Corinthians 12:8–9
Concerning this thing, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
I am such a strong proponent of being careful with what you say. Be mindful of your language and the words you use, because I genuinely believe that the power of life and death lies in the tongue. I use a positive vantage point and lens because I want to see the life in everything.
However, where this becomes problematic is when I deny myself the opportunity to be completely honest and real with myself. This week in my alone time, I gave myself permission to feel. I am talking about really feeling, and it felt so good.
All I could hear God saying was, “I can handle those thoughts. I can handle those feelings.”While I wish God had responded with action. But as I look back, I am just glad He allowed me space to connect with my raw thoughts and emotions and encouraged me not to try to figure it all out.
What I learned this week is that it is okay not to feel the strongest. Weakness does not stop God from moving. Weakness actually gets us out of the way long enough for Him to move fully, without our hindrances. God can flow much more through weakness than He can through our strength.
Where I am and where I am going does not require me to be strong. God can do more with my weakness than I can imagine. So I am going to lean into that and let Him do His thing. That is where my faith is being strengthened this week: letting God move through my weakness.
With love,
Simply Faith