God’s grace is sufficient.
Seriously. It may seem that you’re going through the absolute worst season of your life. And, you may very well be! However, God’s love is sufficient for you to get through it.
I can hear some of you now:
“You don’t know what I’m going through!”
“You don’t understand!”
You’re right. We’re all going through our own battles. I don’t know what your battle is. But I know who our God is. I know that He has suffered everything we have suffered. I know that there isn’t anything we’re going through that He can’t handle. There is no circumstance that surprises Him. There is no situation that He turns away from because He just can’t deal with it. God never throws up His hands and says, “I can’t even, right now.”
Psalm 147:5 says, “Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.”
His understanding has no limit, friends. Think about that. God’s understanding is limitless. Whatever you’re going through, He understands your pain. He understands your hurt. He understands your cries. He understands your sorrow. He understands and He hears you.
In 2 Corinthians 12:8-9, Paul says, “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.”
How is it that we are made strong in our weakness? When we boast about our strengths, that’s all we have to rely on – our own strength. However, when we are weak, we call upon Jesus and His power. It’s then that He can work through us, through our weakness. It’s then that His power is made perfect in weakness. So yes, boast about your weakness because then others can see Christ working in and through you!
I know that just because we call on Him, our circumstance isn’t automatically removed. Our pain doesn’t just disappear in an instant. But, His grace is sufficient enough to get us through our trials.
Take your pain, sorrow, guilt, and brokenness, and lay it at His feet. You are a child of God with God’s grace in you. Cry out to Him. Lift your head high, put on your armor of God, tell Satan to get behind you in Jesus’ name, and march on with Christ in you, soldier.
You can do this because you can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens you. (Philippians 4:13)