I know you look at me and wonder in awe at the exterior strength I somehow have beheld for so many years. Do not mistaken it as my own. I look and seem like things are perfectly in control and have a great balancing act between life and work. This is not my strength. It is clearly on loan.
The strength you so poignantly point out is not something I really have. I am weak. I am fragile and often cry myself to sleep.
This strength you see comes from God. I have learned over the last 28 years that I do not have to be in control. I have fought this idea for a while and finally gave in. Thankfully I learned this now instead of 28 more years from now. This strength was given to me because God carries me through life’s struggles and frazzled moments. I may freak out from time to time cause I looked down and didn’t see what was holding me. Forgive me of that. This strength is not my own. I have to constantly look to what is attached. This strength you see is clearly permanently attached to me while I remain on this earth. I am a work in progress and am not complete until the return of the King.
This strength is bigger than me. It surrounds me, encompasses me and from time to time is exuded through me as I hold my own in struggles, support of others and Do things all by myself. Yes this strength isn’t mine. Please recognize that and be patient with me as I am on a mission. You can have this strength too.
Seek him. He gives freely of his love and asks us to lean upon him. His strength is made perfect when we are weak. God is good my friends.
Do Not Mistaken this Strength as My Own.
Isaiah 40:28
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
