Uncommon Weakness

Weakness today is seen as a repulsive quality.  No one wants to be perceived as being weak, incapable, frail, or needy.  Yet the Apostle Paul himself wrote "I delight in weakness...for when I am weak then I am strong." It seems to me that God not only wants to display His amazing grace in our lives, but He desires to show the world His power through our lives too. This is only possible when we are willing to display our weaknesses to the world.  Our culture only feeds what our nature desires to do with our weakness.  Friends, family, and even our churches encourage us to conceal, and disguise our weaknesses from others. In doing so we convince ourselves that we are stronger, when in fact we become weaker with each passing moment our weakness is kept from view.  It is uncommon to reveal your weaknesses to the world, but it is also the key to becoming stronger in your faith as well.  For this reason Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:9–10 NIV  "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." We can not expect the power of God to rest on our lives if we are too shallow, self indulgent, and superficial to allow our weaknesses to be exposed so that the power of God might also be visible for all to see as well.