Last month I finished up a teaching series on 2 Corinthians. I absolutely loved teaching through this book. One of the last passages that I taught on was 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, which reads, “7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” Whenever I teach a passage like that, I seem to get the chance to practice what I preach. I hate it when that happens – maybe that’s why many preachers only preach about prosperity…
Anyway, today I am left wrestling with how to respond when I feel like I’ve been wronged. This is the verse that popped into my mind. So today I will practice the truth that God’s grace is sufficient for the situation that I am working through. I hope you, in whatever you face in your life today, can do the same.
