I was reminded today of this verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9,”And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness…”
With each passing year, I hear from more and more friends, relative and acquaintances that they are coming down with bizarre and completely unexpected illnesses…just out of the blue. Maybe this has happened in your life, or to your family as well.
Truly in these situations people oftentimes have no idea what to say, so they blurt out the first plausible thing that comes to them. “Stay strong.” “You’ll be fine.” “This too shall pass.”
From experience, I can tell you that when you are in the driver’s seat with a horrible disease, none of these things are comforting. Just tell someone you will be praying for them. That’s all you really need to say. And that’s the very best thing you could possibly do. Nobody is expecting you to be Shakespeare.
If you have reached a point in your life where you feel like you’re about to crack in half, like the next feather to hit your eyelash will make you shatter into a thousand tiny pieces…know that that is absolutely OK.
Sometimes it takes us getting to the very end of our human limitations to push us to a place where we completely surrender to God. I wish we weren’t so stubborn, but I’m certainly guilty of this on occasion myself. I want to do everything for myself. This way I don’t bother anyone else, and I know the job will get done to my satisfaction.
But God says to call upon him, to seek him with our whole hearts…to allow him to be our burden bearer. And we do the exact opposite. We carry tremendous loads we were never intended to carry.
So, if you are in a place right now where the load is heavy and the outlook is bleak from a human perspective….call upon his name. When we are at our weakest point is when he does his very best work.
Happy Friday Friends!
– Flore💕💞💕
