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Our Strength — Part 3
“When I am weak, then am I strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10).
The Apostle Paul knew what weakness was. If you read the context of our verse, beginning at chapter 11:23, you will see that he is talking about and listing some of the things he had experienced in his walk of faith and service for the Lord. They are things that most of us will never be called on to go through. How did he do it day after day and year after year? Certainly not in his own strength, but in the strength of the Lord alone. He could say, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13). He could say this with confidence because he had had the assurance from the Lord earlier, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Are you feeling weak? Do you feel you just can’t face life, even as a believer? It is not wrong to feel our weakness if it casts us in complete dependence on the Lord? “Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength” (Isaiah 40:30-31).
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