Posts with the tag “weakness”

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" - 2 Corinthians 12:9 There is a quiet kind of bravery stronger than bravado: the courage to walk with an open heart, letting your weaknesses show. We want resurrection power, but we often expect it to look like strength and certainty. Paul reminds us: God’s greatest displays of power so often begin at ...  Read More

After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. - Matthew 4:2Matthew’s statement in today’s key verse is brief, but it carries tremendous weight. After forty days and forty nights without food, Jesus was hungry. That may be the most obvious statement in Scripture, but it is also one of the most important. Hunger meant weakness. Depletion. Vulnerability.And that is exactly when the ...  Read More