When I ask what can I write about that glorifies God I run into a wall. How am I supposed to do something that brings glory to the God of the universe? How am I supposed to lift up someone who is infinitely better than I am? How am I supposed to do anything as a broken person? However, that's the beauty of the God I serve; He uses the week and broken things of this world to bring Him glory. I'm still kinda unsure how my life brings Him glory, but He said in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10:
9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
This summer has been a summer of one weakness after another. I have not felt strong this summer, I have not felt confident this summer, and I have not felt like I'm making an impact this summer. Yet perhaps that's how it's supposed to be, if I feel like I'M making an impact then I far too often sideline God and work in my own power. But I am finding a comfort in my weakness and a security in my failures for I know that "when I am weak, then I strong." My own strength is passing and negligible, but God's strength is everlasting and bottomless. And that is something I can rest in in the days, weeks, and even years to come.
Switching Where My Strongth Comes From,
Joshua
Just a quick comment on this.
ReplyDeleteYou know the story of Joshua and Jericho, right? You know... That time when God told his people to march silently around a city for seven days so that the walls would fall down.
What in the world? That's insane. Seriously. There is no way that is possible. It couldn't happen.
But . . . It did?
See, the biggest way our lives (or our writing) can bring God glory is through our weakness (as quoted from Paul above). When we are incapable of doing the things God has planned for us, how can we take credit for it?
When we look at the things we have done in our weakness and see how impossible it was for us to do it in such a state as we were all the world will look at the things we have done and know that there was no possible way that we could have done that on our own. As with Jericho--no reasonable human would consider that walking around a city would cause the walls to fall down. Therefore, God was given the glory for the thing that had happened.
Our weakness is where God's miracles happen because our weakness is the only place we (and the world) will have no doubt that it was only God who could have done what was done.
Keep trusting in God's strength and His power. Keep being weak so that God can be great. Keep seeking God.
Thank you for writing, my friend.