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“Our weaknesses create a space that God wants to fill with strength.”

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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