"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness"

Time has gone fast getting ready to go to Haiti. We had lots of things to do to prepare for the trip like: our bi-monthly meetings, fund-raising, making sure we have everything we need on our packing list, shopping for food, getting the immunizations we needed, praying for one another, getting our Bible story ready for the kids and preparing our hearts and minds for Haiti.

 One thing God has been speaking to me about as I study about Paul is my weaknesses. Who wants to brag about weaknesses! We do Strength Finders to find out what our "strengths" are. Yet Paul in 2 Cor. 12:9-10 is boasting about his weaknesses! "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." It is so contrary to the world's ways. Yet Christ wants us to boast about our weaknesses because than it is not by our power that things get done, but only through Christ! The world asks how and we can say "only through Christ." When we do it on our own strength we tend to think or say "look what I did" but our weaknesses makes us totally dependent on Him! I can't do this without you Lord. That is what I am saying about Haiti, I am weak Lord and I can't do this without you Lord. 

We all have weaknesses that we would rather hide than boast about, but instead of hiding our weaknesses that gives us the opportunity to boast about the Lord instead! So I am excited to see what the Lord is going to do in Haiti and how he is going to use our weaknesses to show His power and strength.

Thanks for this opportunity Lord!

Shari