When you're
at your weakest and least, He's at His strongest and best and can use you most.
God doesn't always remove the thorn, but then again, Christ our King, wore a
crown of thorns just for you.
August's Message, Day 29:
Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the
Lord delivers them in times of trouble. The Lord protects and preserves them—
they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to
the desire of their foes. The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them
from their bed of illness. Psalm
41:1-3 NIV
We all
struggle with times of weakness, stress, fatigue, and illnesses and infirmities
of all sorts. It should be comforting to know that the Lord is gracious and
merciful to the downcast and those in need. He truly is there to help you
overcome and enable you to be at your very best in every way, physically,
mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Our God is the One who sustains us and
continually restores us. Though He may not fully "fix" us, we should
trust that He truly knows what is best and how we, through our own experience
of ailments, can use those same afflictions to help others in their distress.
We can only perceive what we think is best for us, while He knows what is best
for us and everyone we've yet to come in contact with. Use everything you've
been given for His glory, even if what you're experiencing right now only seems
to superficially be the thorn that never gets removed. God can work wonders and
miracles with thorns.
Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming
conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me. 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. 2
Corinthians 12:7b-10 NIV
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