Time of weakness

     Sunday is the first day of Winter and a time of year that makes me think of frailty and weakness.  It is the time of year that most things in nature are dead to the world.  The days are shorter.  People seem to be more fragile and sickness runs rapid.  Now in the south, that starts around September because our weather can not make up its mind on of it wants to be hot or cold and can change drastically in one day.
     This is the time of year that I turn to God more and search harder for His beautiful gifts.  I am a nature girl that has many limitations.  I am aware of them, but never satisfied.  I like to push the limits and often pay the consequences.  My lungs are not the strongest and I have severe sinus issues, but I believe that God uses my weaknesses to be there for others.  To allow others to see me as one of them and not this super spiritual person that is unapproachable.

     I know what my weaknesses are going into the mission field.  I can be head strong.  I am good at organization and administrative things, but that rarely gives me satisfaction.  God is going to use the me like He did with Gideon.  Gideon was hiding when God told him the grand ambitions that He had for Gideon.  I was happy being a backseat Baptist when God nudged me to do more.  I am not outstanding.  I will not outshine anyone on the mission field.  I will make many mistakes, but I know that God will make all my weaknesses into strengths for Him.  All I have to do is step out into the unknown and have faith that He will not let me fall.

 

"(No) for God selected what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame." 1 Corinthians 1:27