A
thought by Kyle Idleman, (2015-10-01) from his book, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins (Kindle
Location 1969). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book
to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
My wife just
went through her Evaluation at work.
That means she had to look back at her year and put on paper how she did
this last year and then go through it with her boss.
Maybe you
have to do that too at your work. Now some people love to look at their
strengths but have real difficulty in accepting their weaknesses but we all
have both.
As Kyle
says, “The idea of weakness being something to celebrate isn’t just
counterintuitive; it’s countercultural. In our world strength is valued— not
weakness.”
He goes on, “God
is always strong, but in our weakness that strength goes viral. The world sees
that it’s not about anything but him. At the end of me, I find a strength in
God that I never would have experienced otherwise.”
He later says,
“Christ made the ultimate lift when he raised the dead. That’s power. And he
wants us to learn to trust his strength rather than our own. When we fail, when
we’re too weak, when we’re at the end of ourselves, it’s then that we have
nowhere to go but to him. It’s there where we discover his strength.”
He finishes
this chapter by saying, “Our church staff sometimes studies books that will
help us be more effective. A few years ago we read one called Strengths Finder. It included an online
assessment that identified each person’s top five strengths. It was helpful,
clarifying who had which skills so we could better lean on one another. People
like assessments, and a number of staff members printed out their top five
strengths and posted them on their office doors. All the while, however, I had
an idea that wouldn’t go away. Wouldn’t it be even more helpful to work through
a book called Weaknesses Finder? We wouldn’t find that title, of course,
because publishers would know they couldn’t sell many copies of it. People like
strengths. Weaknesses, not so much. But if God’s strength shines in our
weaknesses, shouldn’t we want to post those on our doors?
So what are
your weaknesses that God could show his strength in?
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