At Your Weakest

If all that life was really about is the journey. If all that life was all about is the stepping forward. And the moment by moment happenings and challenges and roadblocks. If that was all that life was really all about.

Not the end result nor the finish line. Not the achieved success nor the finally-made-it. Not the finished product nor the completed goal. No, not the success nor the glorification nor the accomplishment. None of it. If life were about none of the end. And all about all of the half-way's, part-way's and on-the-way's journeying of life.

About the journey. The sanctification process. The day by day, growing in Christ, displaying more of Christ, reflecting Christ's life more.

Yes, when life is found in the daily, in the mundane, in the not-so-fun of life. In the hard. In the not-there-yet. In the frustrations and hardships, and the 'how's this going to work?' When life is found there. Real life, eternal life, found there. Then that's when life abounds, oh it does! Only then!

For when you are your weakest - messy and tired, scrambling and unsure, desparate and longing, hurt and diseased, overwhelmed and frustrated - when you are at your weakest. Consumed by that habit and that flesh pattern that haunts you. Over and over. When you fall, again, from Him.

And you are at your weakest.

There is where life is promised. Because there is where life can be given, to you, and life can be found, by you. Only there. At your weakest. Only there.

For when you are weak is when Christ is strong. Because then you will look up. You will finally look up. And He becomes your strength. Only then.

And the letting go becomes habit, the looking up becomes natural, when the surrendering again and again becomes the only way to live. Because it is. Then the weakness in you, becomes strength. And the difficulty becomes opportunity. For the hurt becomes praise, in you.

And God is lifted high and exalted, in you!

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"For 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 Corinthians 12:10

"For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.'" - Isaiah 57:15