The Key to Overcoming Weakness

Where there is weakness, there is grace available to overcome it. This grace, however, can only be truly experienced when that weakness is fully embraced in the light of the greatness of God's strength.

When we cease to strive to be stronger and lean on the arm of God, then are we truly strong. Why? Our own strength is limited and it will wane, but the strength of God is ever as the noonday sun: there is no dusk in the strength of our Creator King.

He who strives in His own strength will fail, but he/she who counts on and looks to the strength of the Father will last the distance -- and have reserve left over to sprint to the finish.

Jeremiah 17: 5-8

Thus says the LORD:

      “ Cursed is the man who trusts in man
      And makes flesh his strength,
      Whose heart departs from the LORD.
        For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
      And shall not see when good comes,
      But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
      In a salt land which is not inhabited.
        “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
      And whose hope is the LORD.
        For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
      Which spreads out its roots by the river,
      And will not fear when heat comes;
      But its leaf will be green,
      And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
      Nor will cease from yielding fruit.