AUG 16 – WILL BE MADE PERFECT!

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (II Corinthians 12:9).

The strength of God is made perfect in your weakness. At times, God permits certain weaknesses in your life. He does this for the reason that His strength is made perfect in your life.

You will lean upon God only when you have some weaknesses. Otherwise, there will not be a necessity for one to lean upon the grace of God. Further, you will not also glorify God. He admits certain weaknesses in your life so that you fully rely upon Him for strength and grace.

Paul the Apostle had a weakness. He says, “And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me” (II Corinthians 12:7, 8).

God Himself had admitted that weakness in Paul’s life. God had given numerous visions and revelations to Paul. There was a possibility for Paul to become proud over those things and that was why God had allowed that weakness in him.

God said, ‘When these weaknesses are in you, pride will not come into you. You will be humble and will be relying upon my strength. I will also be using you continuously.

So, do not look at your weaknesses. Look at my grace. My strength is made perfect in your weakness.’ Paul the Apostle accepted this happily. Since he was relying only upon the grace and strength of God, God used him more powerfully.

Dear children of God, do not get weary about the weakness in you. Do not keep waiting to reach one hundred percent perfection to accomplish your deeds. Even amidst your weaknesses, you can do great things for God. In proportion to whatever extent you rely upon the grace of God, the power of God will be flowing into your body. Then you also will do great things for God.

To meditate: “God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty” (I Corinthians 1:27).