Week Seventeen 02/05-02/09


Week Seventeen 02/05-02/092

Corinthians 12:9 “And He said to me, ”My grace is sufficient for you, my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of God may rest upon me.”

An ongoing joke I have about myself is that my weakness is my strength. I’m pretty sure I am the epitome of Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. However, in all of that mess, I’m forced to rely solely on the Lord. I see it as the weaker the person, the more clearly God’s grace is able to shine. This week I got to live out this verse. We went out to eat on Wednesday evening and I immediately knew I had eaten something funky. One of my teammates had thrown up through the night and decided it would be best to stay home from our village visits. The next morning I still wasn’t feeling well, but decided to push through and travel to the village. I realized I was slowly getting worse but there was no way we’d be able to turn back around. We were also 2 men down out of 7 and wouldn’t have been able to do our program with just 4 people. So I began to pray. My prayer wasn’t that God would heal my body, but that He would be my strength and sustain me through the 2 programs. Before, in between, and after I slept.  Yet during the programs I was singing, dancing, giving the lesson, and leading the games. There is absolutely no way this could’ve been done, at least not with a joyful and willing heart. As soon as I saw the faces of the children, I knew exactly whom this was for and who would make a way for me to do it. It sounds like I’m over exaggerating but these were by far the greatest kid’s programs I’ve done. I know its because none of it was done in my own flesh. When I say weakness is my strength, I mean that I’ve come to the end of myself and God has to come through and use this broken but willing vessel. And He always does.

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