strength training
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Hanging out with other men who love God is so encouraging! This morning at Band of Brothers we had about 35 men gather together for a great breakfast and some time to kick the tires about matters of life and faith. (There were some good laughs too...) We discussed the idea of gentle strength today. The idea that in our weakness God is shown to be strong. At first blush, this concept is an exercise in classic irony. Yet consider this.... When I'm weak, I'm showing that I can't do it alone. I'm shown to be dependent on God. And when I'm dependent on God, He is shown to be strong. You might call it strength training. God desires us to be dependent on Him. When I go through life confident in myself, I am essentially saying that I don't need God. In fact, the usual approach is to only depend on God when depending on me stops working. I'm asking God to pick up where I left off. |
| God doesn't want us to do life our way. He wants us to do life His way. He wants us to rely on Him to lift and carry our lives. Knowing and living out the idea that I need to be 100% dependent on God and 0% dependent on me or other people is a pretty big deal. I need to empty myself daily and sometimes hourly of the urge to do life my way. I need to allow God to work in me and through me. I need to be dependent on Him. I want to be weak, so that He is shown to be strong. It's strength training. | |
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