Strength In Weakness
Why is God-with-us such a hard concept to embrace? I would say it is strength that keeps God at a distance from us. And when that strength is taken, removed, or shaken, then we beg for God to be God-with-us. Until then, however, we keep Him at a safe distance because we simply don’t want to be interrupted, questioned, or asked much of in our daily living. When the hard hits, we want Jesus to be right there But once things ease up a bit, we say, “Thank You Jesus. I’ve got it from here.” The sovereignty of God in suffering is kindness to keep us utterly dependent in a way our strength resists. Suffering often comes to the strong and is met with bitter anger. It isn’t the suffering that causes the anger so much as the taking of strength. Honestly, in the hardest of my cancer treatment, I was not crying out for the suffering to stop, but more for the strength to return. If I’m totally honest, that is my prayer right now – not for fewer days of suffering but for more days of strength. We love strength, we live for it, and when it is gone, we question the goodness of God. But as I have seen in my own story, the taking of strength
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