His Strength Is Perfect

I’m a huge Steven Curtis Chapman fan, so I’m going to use one of his songs as the basis of my devotional this month. He wrote a song called, “His Strength is Perfect.” The title says it all. I don’t need to even quote the lyrics. In fact, the song just quotes the Word. (2 Co 12:9) “And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” I find myself singing this song more often than I’d like to admit. In fact, that’s one of the things I want to talk about today. Our weaknesses and our denial of them.

We all have them. We all know we have them, but for some reason it seems really hard for us to admit it. Then again, maybe the problem is more admitting these failures to ourselves than to others. I have too many times stood in the place of utter weakness. You know that place where you know that there is no way humanly possible that you could make it through, or make it better? In those times, I always sing this song and say a little prayer, and ask God to take my weakness and turn it inside out. Only He can do that. Time after time, He has answered that prayer, and it never ceases to amaze me. He never says “no.” He always comes to the rescue and makes me look stronger than I really am. In return I give Him all the glory.

No one knows more than I, how many times I would have fallen flat on my face had it not been for His strength, and never ending grace. Only I know how strong He is in my life, and how little of what I do is me and how much is Him. Whether I will ever be able to quickly acknowledge my weaknesses to others or even to myself, I don’t know, but I AM learning to acknowledge them as quickly as possible to God. Sometimes I even find myself praying for weakness to come so that His strength will be perfect through me. After you’ve experienced doing things in His might, you don’t want to do them in your own, because you will always fall short.

I guess the point of all this is just to say, “Don’t be afraid of weakness. Don’t be afraid to fall, because in those times you will truly know the purity of His strength and love for you.”

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