SUNDAY LESSON, 7/5/20
REVIVAL: TURNING WEAKNESS INTO STRENGTH
2 Corinthians 11:30, 12:9-10
The apostle Paul said, “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness” (2 Corinthians 11:30). Not us!! We don’t brag about our weakness. We go to great lengths to disguise them.
When being interviewed for a job, don’t you just dread the question: “What is your greatest weakness?” You don’t say, “I’m never on time. I constantly procrastinate. I have trouble getting along with my co-workers. I am not quite sure how to turn on a computer.” You don’t say that, but you have to say something. So, you try to come up with a weakness that sounds more like a strength: “Well, I can be a little bit of a perfectionist. I tend to be a workaholic.”
Paul as a self-righteous, self-proficient Pharisee would never brag about his weakness, but he learned that by turning his weakness over to Christ he found divine strength to face whatever Satan would throw at him.
Whatever your weakness is. Whatever is keeping you from serving the Lord and His church. Give it to God to see what amazing things He can do through you all to His glory.
2 Corinthians 11:30: “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10: “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. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, than I am strong.”
