In my weakness, He is
strong. When I am weak in an area of my life and I surrender my weakness to His
power, He comes and makes me strong where I have never known His strength. Often
that surrender comes after I have exhausted everything I can do to make a
change. It comes when I finally understand in my heart and mind and spirit, that
the control is not meant to be mine. If my weakness is over something that I
have no control, then the Holy Spirit brings me the power to have His control.
But the key... the very key to this promise comes in surrender of my will to His
will.
If I think I am a
person who has completely surrendered my will to the Lord in every area, I need
to look again. I need to understand that absolutely surrendering my control to
His control comes when I am at the bottom.... when all my attempts have failed.
I hear in my ear from the enemy, “you will never get on top of this” and
“you are a failure.” I will never get on top of it in my own strength. I will
fail without His power in my life. Those whispers of the enemy are true only if
I don't surrender and allow God to make the changes that need to be
made.
When I am at the
bottom the only way is up. I can either keep trying to climb out of that well by
myself, or I can give up and let God extend His hand to me. It is in the dying
to my will that He comes and brings new life. It is absolutely possible for me
to find a way out of that well in my own strength, but I will only end up at the
bottom again. When I finally understand that nothing I attempt in my own
strength will make a lasting difference....when I surrender (often struggling)
every day to God.... when I decide that nothing has the power to change me but
God.... when I let go of my own control, and allow Him to give me what I need
for the daily battle, THEN, I WILL STAY OUT OF THAT WELL.
Each day when I have
surrendered and He has brought me out of the well, I KNOW He is strong, and I
KNOW that I am weak. I pray to know it the next day and the next. The well
always beckons, but so does He. I would rather surrender to Him than surrender
to the well.
Lord, help me to
always realize that surrendering my will and life life daily to you is the only
real life. Your life in me is the greatest paradox.... that in dying I live...
in losing control, I discover control, and in letting go of my way, I find
yours. In my weakness, I discover your strength. Those slippery walls that have
always allowed me to slide right back to the bottom of the well are finally
scaled with your power! In my weakness, I have found your strength. I look back
upon my well from your heights, and declare today that only you will keep me out
of it.
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