8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But 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. 10 That 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. 2 Corinthians 8:10
We all can be weak and can suffer, and some just do not know how to handle it. We can cry out to the Lord as loud as we want, yet if He desires us to go through challenges so that we rely on Him, then we will. When we don't rely on Him to give us His grace, then we are turning out back on Him. He will rescue us if we are faithful and cry out to Him for Him to lift the burden. This week I saw my Dad pass into Heaven to be with God and my mother. My Dad had many weaknesses but he did the best he could to show us the path to Jesus. While he wasn't always the same dad we grew up with, I know that God makes us perfect and takes away the pain that we suffer here on earth. We just need to understand our pain is not always taken care of here. I hope that these messages give you a hope that is hard for some people to find.
Have a great weekend.
Matt
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