“Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His Power“–Chambers

I always thought weakness was a thing to shun and overcome at any cost.  I did not realize for such a long time, that weakness can be brought to God as an offering, being all I had to offer, just as the widow’s mite.  Being ashamed of my impoverished state, I was wanting to “work on what I had, that I might somehow increase it, yet in the end I would be left clinging and hoping not to lose what little I had.  Instead, I needed to realize that in His hands, “little” becomes abundance and plenty.

Lord as I face the uncertain days ahead, I thank You that You have done this.  I must decrease, that Christ-in-me may increase.  Help me to go still in Your presence, dwelling in Christ through the trial, an understand that weakness is merely “power-under-control”, Your power, poised and ready, and sufficient to fulfill your will and plan in all things.

2 Corinthians 4:15-18 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.  For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not after the things which are seen, but at things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.  Romans 8:17