God’s Strength Can Only Perfected in Our Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:9

This strength is not of much help to us as long as we are strong in ourselves. Therefore our own strength is an obstacle instead of a help, as people usually think. The one strength has to leave before the other strength can be fully activated.

Our own strength is therefore a bad substitute. Yet people are so foolish that they admire this inferior substitute.

We can only fully rely on God when we have nothing of ourselves to rely on. The person who in fact relies on Him wholeheartedly is like Mount Zion that cannot be moved. Ps. 125:1.

According to the French Bible translation, we have a tremendously glorious promise in 1 Peter 2:6: “He who believes in Him (the Chief Corner Stone, Christ) will by no means be confused.” Never!

“Confused” is a foreign word (French) introduced into the Norwegian language and means a person has become disconcerted; he is perplexed and indecisive, so that he doesn’t know what he wants or shall do. In everyday language, such a person doesn’t know whether he is coming or going.

Sadly, there is much of this in daily life. Many believers, even very many, get confused because of trifles. In the deepest sense, they simply do not believe in Him, in His perfect guidance, in His powerful presence and help.

For example, when a person is anxious, he is confused. Then he has truly become disconcerted. Then he does not believe in God. He doesn’t even remember that He exists.

Essentially, it is in daily life that either God’s power, or our own wretchedness, becomes evident.