A few years back I injured myself while serving in the military. Though I had round after round of physical therapy the pain never truly went away. To this day the pain is still there in the same place it has always been. This being the case I have on occasion pushed the pain out of my mind so I could do what needed to be done. Now this doesn't mean that I wasn't in pain but that for the present moment I was numb to the pain due to my circumstances.
As a man running after God, sometimes I have to do the same thing in my Spiritual walk. Though someone may have hurt me or I may not "feel" like ministering, I have to push those feelings out of my mind so that I can do the work that God has for me. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12 that "there was given me a thorn in my flesh" he goes on to say "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."
In short, God's strength is made perfect in our lives when we are walking through the pain.
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