September 15, 2011 12:01 PM
Elisabeth Elliot: In our weakness, He is strong
Tripp arrives home today after being gone for 13 days. During that time, one of my special needs sons has been having major issues, so I am hopeful a little touch of Daddy will give him the security he seems to be missing. In the meantime, I've been through bouts of despair and I-can't-do-this-anymore. Grateful I'm an optimist at heart because those feelings come and go like storm clouds. I just have to keep looking for the rainbow.Anyway, I like what Elisabeth Elliot says:
Content to be Weak
What weakness are you feeling today? The inability to manage circumstances that cry out to be changed? Helplessness in the face of another's deep need, or of evil you have to watch perpetrated on others you love? A sense of inadequacy for some task laid upon you? Physical weakness or pain? The need for power to forgive an injury or keep silence about unjust accusations against you?
Christ has been there before you. Every form of human limitation He knew, and out of that utter poverty we have been made strong. Yet, again and again, in the life of each disciple, comes the experience of weakness in order that we may live His life for others.
"We who share His weakness shall by the power of God live with Him in your service" (2 Cor 13:4 NEB).
This sharing of His weakness is one aspect of the death of the cross, one of the conditions of our discipleship, and hence cause for joy rather than bitterness. For we walk the road, not alone, but with Christ, "well content to be weak at any time if only you are strong" (2 Cor 13:9 NEB). The mystery is constantly being worked out--strength out of weakness, life out of death.
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