His Grace is Sufficient when our Strength is Deficient

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12‬:‭9,‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Oh, I know the verse. I’m sure you do, too, but it’s not enough to be aware of truth. We have to be fully convinced of it if we are going to truly rest in it, stand up on it, and find our strength in it.

We are not enough, and we never will be. We will be never be smart enough, strong enough, or savvy enough to overcome our weakness.

But in the areas we lack, He promises to pick up the slack.

There’s not a program we can purchase, a supplement we can take, or a list we can make that can provide fool proof results in overcoming weakness.

I’m not saying these things can’t help us, but true strength and power is not found in being helped by the world’s ways, but in being held by His amazing grace.

So, we can stay in the vicious cycle of striving for more, or we can stay in the victorious place of grace, being helped and held by Him, knowing Jesus is all the “more” we will ever need.

His “more than enough” is more than enough to cover our “not enough.”

His all sufficiency and grace give us perfect peace and rest when we are weary in our weakness.

And that, my friends, is all the power we need to live victoriously.

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭14‬-‭21,‬ ‭ESV‬‬)