Our Strength

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. (2 Corinthians 3:5 NKJV)

 This is a wonder of His grace: He came to take our burdens on Himself. He came to get involved in our lives, to be our strength. It is not when we are strong that we discover His power; it is when we are weak, when we are insufficient.
Put Him to the test. Take that burden you are carrying, that weight that crushes down on your shoulders, and give it to Him. He will take it for you. It is at that moment that you will find His strength.
 It is only when we come to the end of ourselves that we truly discover the sufficiency of Christ. It is in this dependency on Him that we truly know Him, Christ in us, the hope of glory.
 This is our hope and strength, the same hope and strength that saw the apostle Paul through terrible troubles and suffering and inspired him to say, “Most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
 We are weak, but He is strong. We are insufficient, but His grace is sufficient. Our troubles are unbearable, but He will bear them for us. —Misty Kay [1]

 We’re saved by grace—God’s undeserved favor—and we live by grace, which is also God’s power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it’s all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly, and completely. —Joyce Meyer

[1] Misty Kay Anchor The Picture of Grace