Dec 10th 🌿 Ministry Update – Would You See Me If You Were Strong?

In a world where a fast-moving pace is inevitable, strength seems to be our default setting. It has become the norm and is now expected. Weakness is automatically categorized as failure. Harder, faster, stronger, better. Whew, that is a lot of pressure.

If strength is the goal, is weakness failure?

What if I told you that both weakness and strength are only tools? Neither one by itself measures your worth. Thoughtless, toxic, ambitious, callus strength has no more place in God’s world than cowardly, lazy, unmotivated weakness.

Both strength and weakness are choices that need to be filtered through the Spirit before you decide what to do. Is this a moment where God will grow you through strength, or is this a moment where He will shape you through weakness?

In Exodus 3 and 4, Moses’s greatest insecurity, his voice, became the instrument God used to confront the most powerful ruler on earth. God did not fix Moses first. God worked through what Moses called a flaw.

In Judges 6 and 7, Gideon already felt weak. Then God made him even weaker. His army went from thirty-two thousand soldiers to only three hundred. Why? So Israel could not say: My own strength saved me.

In 1 Samuel 17, God did not need a warrior with armor. He needed a boy with faith.

In 2 Corinthians 12, verses 9 and 10, Paul begged God to remove the thorn in his flesh. God did not remove it. God reframed it.

So maybe we need to redefine strength. Maybe we need to shift our perspective. In the world, strength is the ability to handle everything yourself. In the kingdom, strength is the humility to let God handle everything you cannot, because weakness makes space for Him.

Feeling weak lately? Thank God.