A Boast in My Weaknesses

The place of intimacy is the place of vulnerability!! Why would I need to put up a face to someone who fully knows and loves me for me; with flaws and all?

Scripture talks of boasting in our weakness; cause in our weakness, His grace is sufficient and the power of God is made perfect. Come to think of it, having weaknesses is a gift! Yes, yes that's right. I mean, it keeps us humble and reminds us of the fact that we are not better than everyone else, we are in need of the grace of God.

I am guilty of wanting to always present a figured out version of myself. What will they say about me? How will they see me after I share my flaws? Will they still hold me in high regards? What if they never come back to me for counsel cause I let them into my flaw?

What's the focus in all these concerns? It's everyone else but God. Yet we'll still sing to him 🎶My life is not my own, to you I belong🎶 Really now! Is this so? If it were, we'd gladly boast in our weaknesses and allow God to transform us right in front of the eyes of the people around us hence transformation in their lives as well; this brings glory to God whom we should passionately seek to please. This is the purpose for our weaknesses.

My greatest personal weakness is wanting to always be right. I feel so bad when someone challenges me in something I totally knew I'm right about, and this has made it hard to take counsel from people. I constantly find myself responding to counsel with 'I knew that already' attitude. Do you know what that is? PRIDE 

The sad thing is that we have normalized wanting to look perfect and conformed to the pattern of the world through statements like, 'Don't let them see your weakness'. The worst part of it is sometimes we show up in the place of prayer the same way. We then become the pharisee who compares himself in scripture with the tax collector; considering himself better than him because of the things he does and does not do😔😔

We forget that God does not work on the part of us we haven't recognized and presented to Him as a place of weakness.

As we pursue intimacy with God, He desires of us to be completely vulnerable with Him. When he has our heart, he can change our habits and transform us from the inside out. Truth is, we don't enjoy being at the place of weakness and we don't have to; let's allow the purpose of our weaknesses to be fulfilled.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord,

I love you and it is my greatest desire to be like you, but in the midst of it all may I not forget that you desire to get glory even out of my weaknesses.

May my weaknesses remind me of how much I'm in need of you, may it stir up my pursuit of you. Also, may I be vulnerable enough to acknowledge that I'm weak in some areas of my life. Not just to you but also to those around me so that when you transform me, or choose to use me despite of it, they may also see your power at work in me.

Amen!