Yearning for strength in weakness

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. ¹⁰For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.  (2 Cor 12:9-10)

My heart breaks and aches each time I see/hear about a close friend who is weak.  They are suffering and struggling through a long season in this valley of life God has set before them, and I cannot do a single thing except to pray for them.  What more, they either seem to lack any humility to ask others for help or accountability…and they keep on trying to live the Christian life when I’ve said this a million times–the Christian life is not just difficult, it is impossible!  What they need, and what we all need is an internal transformation, not just external modifications.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2)

We already had the main internal transformation happen to us when we were ‘regenerated’/became a saint (holy and faithful one IN Christ), and called righteous+justified through faith…but what we as His people need now, as always, more than ever, is sanctification.  Sanctification basically means we have to set ourselves apart for the use intended by GOD our Creator.  Indeed, this may include external things like obedience to His Living Word, through simple day-to-day things like not skipping class, not indulging in earthly materialism / shopping, keeping ourselves sexually pure, and also reading His Word & spending time with Him daily…but these external things are meaningless and have no foundation unless they are rooted in the internal transformation of our heart soul mind and strength all together being set aside for His purposes.

It really is that simple, and I’m again, going back to my passion here–God’s glory.  Since we were made BY Him, the only person who knows what we are here FOR is GOD Himself…so it is only right if we set our minds on things above & not on things on earth, and make sure we seek Him and only Him for purpose and reason and meaning for everything we do & our very existence.  All things being said, we have to do everything in Christ’s name to the glory of the Father.  And of course, God’s glory is never without His holiness–and this very essence of glorifying God is sanctifying ourselves to be holy–because He is pure glory, He also is pure Holy and requires us to be the same.

May God’s strength be magnified in your weakness, in our weaknesses.  And through our weaknesses, may Christ show His power to overcome all things.
Amen.

Holy Design
This place in time
That I might seek and find my God
My God

*Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You, and only You!
Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You, and only You
Lord I want to yearn!

Your joy is mine
Yet why am I fine
With all my singing and bringing grain
In light of Him

Oh You give life and breath
In You we live and move
That’s why I sing *

P.S. More on “Internal Transformation” vs “External Modification” later….