In Our Weakness

While we are unwilling to admit we are weak
no-one will believe we can truly understand
what it means to lose; what it means to fail-
-sometimes miserably.

If you have attempted to convince others you are strong,
I have bad news for you, they are not fooled.
Your weakness is common knowledge.
It is published in every human heart and known by every mind.
It is simply called "humanness." It is being human,
and this weakness is common to all.

It is not our strength God seeks to use, but our weakness.
Our strength brings US glory.
Our weakness brings HIM glory.
So, He chose two people well past childbearing age -
-to birth His nation.
He chose the least of Jessie's sons
-to be king of His nation.
He chose mere fishermen and vile tax collectors
-to spread His good news.
Now He chooses you and I even in our weakness,
(perhaps because of our weakness)
-to accomplish great things.

If you have yet to accomplish great things,
and if the prospects seem dim,
perhaps you have been and are being,
-too strong.
It is, then, your own strength which has limited you.
It is your own self sufficiency
which has hampered your usefulness.
It is good that you are here at the end of you
weak and looking to Him for strength.

Isa. 40:29, Isa. 53:3, Ezek. 34:16, Joel 3:10, Rom. 15:1, 1Cor. 1:25, 27, 2Cor. 12:9-10

Copyright(C)1999 Hudson Russell Davis