After spending last week at home, and most of today at the doctor (scheduling dental implants for Oct. 19 and eye surgery for Oct. 26), this was "good medicine" for me! smile emoticon
"Sometimes in your life you’re going to be so weak you can’t even pray, read the Bible, or go to a Bible study.... What do you do in those moments? You rest in the strength of the Lord, in his arms like a little child, and you trust.
Weakness can actually be a good thing in your life if it causes you to depend on God. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:8-10, “Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.’ So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (NLT).
That’s the paradox of depending on God — the more you’re weak, the more you depend on God. And the more you depend on God, the stronger you get." - Rick Warren
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