Is God’s grace sufficient for me? His Word says
it is. Second Corinthians 12:9 says, “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.”
What is grace? I decided to dig. (In case you haven’t noticed, I love to
dig and research things). I
started with the dictionary: Definition of Grace: unmerited divine assistance given
humans for their regeneration or sanctification. Well, that was wordy. Next
definition: a virtue coming from God. I like that one better. Ok, so this is
what the world thinks grace is. Let’s see what God says about grace…
God says His grace
is sufficient for me… Grace covers my loss and soothes my pain in order for
me to continue daily life. Without God's grace we could not travel through the valleys
of sickness and death. It is His grace that carries us through. It is His grace
that transports us into His very heart and heals us, comforts us. Grace loves. Grace
protects. Grace died for us. Grace wraps its arms around the grieving soul and
pours in God’s love and healing balm. Grace helps us survive.
His grace is sufficient...
I looked up the word sufficient in the Strong’s Concordance and
to my surprise in the Greek it means “be enough.” God has been teaching me lately, as I am going through my own
valley of sickness, that He is enough for me. He’s enough in that I don’t have
to lean on my own understanding, but I can depend on Him for everything,
because He is “my enough.” I love
knowing that He is enough/sufficient for me. I don’t know about you, but that
comforts and strengthens me.
His power is made perfect in my weakness… Now I do understand what it means
to be weak. I have an autoimmune disease that leaves me incredibly weak at
times, so weak I cannot get out of the bed. On those days I pray and ask my
husband to pray for God’s strength just to get up. However, I believe that in this
section of scripture, this weakness is a spiritual weakness, a something we “set
our hearts on” weakness. He gives
us the power to resist, the power to say no to the “sin/weakness.”
I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me… Christ knows my spiritual weaknesses better than I do. He
also knows I cannot do anything in my own power. I must allow Him to work in me
and through me. According to Strong’s Concordance,“I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses” means giving
a “nod” toward someone, or something. In other words, I am acknowledging or "nodding" that it is because of
Him that I am weak in order to be strong in my spirit. In other words, He gives
strength to the weak (in spirit) to be bold/strong for
Him. We don’t have to depend on ourselves to do God’s work - just Him, because
His power will rest on us.
I don’t know
about you but I sure do like it when Christ’s power rests on me and I get out
of the way. What about you?
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