To keep me from becoming conceited... there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Cor. 12:7-10
As I was praying God brought the phrase 'I will glory in my weakness' into my mind. I knew that it was from Paul's writings and I soon found it in 2 Corintians 12.
I was bit taken aback, as I had never really thought about 'glorying in the weakness' of these circumstances. Sure, I was familiar with the passage, but had not applied it in this way.
What also strikes me is how little I wanted to do it. I still would much rather have the circumstances change!
I am also impacted by the reality that I am not allowing God's grace to be sufficient for me. (How's that for a wake up call!)
All this requires more prayer and thought... probably just prayer!
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