Strength

"For my strength is made perfect in weakness." - 2 Corinthians 12:9

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When we march forth to battle thinking we are strong with our own strength, God will not go forth with us. When we go forth with our own strength we will come back defeated, and tired. Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. God will have no strength used in his battles but the strength which he himself imparts. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

"When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song."