Through Him Who Strengthens Me

2 Cor. 3:5  "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God."

The part of this verse that really strikes me is "but our sufficiency is from God." If you are trying to be a Christian on your own; you can't. Not only can you not do it on your own, but you are taking away from God, and taking away from what He wants to show through you.


2 Cor. 12:9  "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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Cor. 12:10  "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 

God shows His power though our weaknesses, and grace through our sins; believe it or not. If you are powerful, or think you are bigger than the rest, you will be brought low, whether here on earth, or after death.

1 Cor. 1:27  "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 

1 Cor. 1:28  "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are." 

Now, the weak don't do this by themselves.  They do it through God, using His strength.

And its not like you can just do some things; no, you can do ALL things through Him who strengthens you.

Phil. 4:12  "I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 

Phil. 4:13  "I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

I leave you with this: 

He strengthens those who are weak, and He weakens those who are strong.  He tore down empires and kings without any problem.

Isa 40:23  "Who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. 

Isa 40:24  "Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when He blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble."

If he can destroy rulers like this, can He not take those who are nothing, and make them the rulers? Can He not  make you into the strong? He promises He will make the weak strong. HOWEVER, only if you let Him will he make you stronger, and only if  you allow yourself to be His tool will you do great works for Him. 

In Christ, 

Dawson