Psalms 31:9-10 NASB
⁹Be gracious to me, O Lord,
for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief,
my soul and my body also.
¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.
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2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NASB
⁷Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me-to keep me from exalting myself!
⁸Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. ⁹And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
¹⁰Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Little Buster wanted to do a thing that he was not allowed to do — play with his mother’s vases in the cabinet.
One day in her absence, he got the key and took out the very choicest one.
It slipped, fell to the floor, and broke. Buster quickly got busy with glue to try to put the pieces together.
His mother found him working feverishly and overheard him saying, “Buster fix. Buster fix.” Although he was struggling to fix the vase, the pieces would not go together. Finally, tears rolled down his cheeks.
When he saw his mother, he sobbed, “Buster can’t fix. Buster try. But Buster can’t!”
The healing of our iniquities never comes when we say: “We can fix it!”
Healing comes when we confess that we cannot correct it ourselves.
▪︎ Whether it be an alcoholic, seeking to quit drinking alcoholics,
▪︎ or a minister struggling with church problems,
▪︎ or a teacher discouraged by seemingly inappreciative pupils,
▪︎ or anyone else struggling with the strong forces of sin,
the answer is not in saying, “I’ll do it, Lord.”
The answer is found rather in praying, “God, help me. I need Thy strength.”
Prayer suggestion
▪︎ Ask God to teach you the lesson that you can find strength, sufficient for this day, in Him alone
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