Too Weak, Really?

Sheep am dumb.  It’s a weakness but it’s good when we accept it.  I think our worst times come when we refuse to accept it and end up relying on some false pretense of strength.  Let me give you an example.

Let’s say, for instance, that you know you should pray and read your bible.  But, even though you have good intentions of doing those things you always seem to come up short.  When that happens, how do you explain it to yourself?  Do you tell yourself that you are just “too weak” to set aside the needed time?  You just always seem to let other things crowd out the necessary time that you would like to spend in prayer and bible study?  So, you end up believing that YOU are “too weak”?

Let’s try another example…let’s say that someone has hurt you in the past.  It was wrong what they did to you and even though you know you should forgive, you have not been able to do so.  OK, so how do you explain that to yourself?  Do you tell yourself that you don’t have the strength to forgive?  In other words, once again, YOU are “too weak”?

We could keep going with more examples that involve other issues like serving the Lord, tithing, witnessing, etc. but in the end if those are areas with which you struggle how do you explain it to yourself?  Does it basically come back to YOU and YOUr strength?  YOU can’t find the time to serve?  YOU can’t figure out how you can afford to tithe?  YOU don’t know enough to lead someone to Christ?  YOU…YOU…YOU are just too weak!

Let me try to encourage you.  YOU are not too weak.  YOU are too strong.

I’ll explain why tomorrow.

Still listening…