Strength In Weakness

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV

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I prayed for my thorn to go.

More than three times.

More than three hundred.

Paul begged You too. An apostle. A writer of Scripture. A man who had glimpsed paradise. Still the thorn remained.

And You answered him with a sentence instead of a cure.

Lord Jesus, I wanted removal. You offered Yourself.

I did not understand it then. I am beginning to now.

Strength did not arrive when the weakness left. It arrived inside the weakness.

There are places in me that will never be strong enough. Old wounds. Thin patience. A body that tires sooner than it used to.

You do not despise those places. You live there. Your power settles in them the way evening light settles in a cracked window and makes it glow.

So I stop hiding the limp. I stop apologising for the ache. I lean.

And leaning, I find I am held.

My weakness is not the end of the story. It is where You begin to write.

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Lord Jesus, thank You that Your grace is enough for today’s thorn. Thank You for making my weakest place a dwelling for Your strength. Amen.