Power Perfected In Weakness (2 Cor. 12), April 24, 2005

[Kourtney_Butler]

That was wonderful Caleb, Charles knows I've been feeling rather insecure lately and that was just the reminder I needed to realize I am not secure in anything and I'm glad for it because in my insecurities and weaknesses only make Christ stronger in my life and make me more aware of how much I truly depend on him.

[Charles C. Grimm]

Lately I've been in an odd state where I'm simply waiting for the school year to start in China so I can go teach English. During this time I'm having to depend on God to provide, and so far He has provided far more than I could have wished. There are those times, though, when things look bleak. It's then that a phone call that wakes you up or even just a tree you see on the side of the road reminds you of how great the rest that is waiting in Christ really is.
I like the poem. It does a good job of summing up how God is the strength that carries us. I like the use of metaphor.
I will never fully understand the love that compelled Chist to come and die for us.

[J. Caleb Cochran]

A light in the east, the night turns to dawn.
A sigh for the weary as strength is drawn
From whom all glory and power belong,
For when I am weak, O then am I strong.
Drops of rain in the midst of dreadful drought,
O Lord, I am filled from Thy open spout.
Sympathy for weakness of great and least,
Thou sharest with me, O Thou my High Priest.
My Shepard, My Guide, My Tower of Strength,
Thy comfort lacks measure, by width, height, length.
O joy through my trials, they will not be long,
For when I am weak, O then am I strong.
Not of my own, Lord.
Not by my own, Lord.
Not for my own, Lord.
Not on my own, Lord.