Our Weakness Is His Strength!
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My
strength is made perfect in weakness.
For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12:
9-10
A boy began lessons with a Japanese judo master.
The boy had lost his left arm in a car accident. After
three months of training,
the master taught him only
one move. “This is the only move you know, but this
is the only move you’ll ever need to know,”
the sensei replied.
Months later, the sensei took the
boy to his first tournament. He won
all of three matches. Amazed by his
success, the boy was in the finals.
He asked the master why he had
won.
“You won for two reasons,” sensei answered.
“First, you almost mastered one of the most
difficult throws in all of judo.
Second, the only known defense for that
move is for your
opponent to grab your
left arm.” The boy’s biggest weakness
had become his biggest strength.
We don’t view our weaknesses in the
same way, but we should—just like Paul
prayed fervently for God to remove some
affliction unknown to us, what he called a
“thorn in the flesh.”
Refusing to remove it,
God said to Paul,
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My
strength is made perfect in weakness.”
"Live…daily, a life of
dependence on the
grace of God."
Charles Spurgeon
