His Strength is made perfect in weakness

Samson’s hair, Moses’ hands lifted up, 300 men with lamps and a shout, five loaves and 2 small fishes. If your fear is based on your weakness think again for God will deliberately include what you cannot do into His plan so that He can reveal and demonstrate His strength. When a battle is won despite your weaknesses then you will never loose the power of that victory. In your walk with God inability does not indicate how much you have fallen short rather how much God intends to make up to ensure that you succeed.  His promise, purpose and plan in no way depend on your talents, intelligence or resources.  In fact so that you do not rely on your natural strength in any given area God will at times deliberately deplete or limit you.  Joshua, for example, may have been a great warrior and leader but in Exodus 17:8 – 14 his victory totally depended on Moses’ hands being lifted up in worship, surrender, and obedience to God. Selah! Bottom line, if you have all that it takes to finish it then God never started it.

 To fulfil the call of God it is not just a case of knowing what to do but knowing how to depend on God in doing it.  The best lesson you will ever learn is to have victory in a situation that you cannot cope with without God’s help.  In this type of pressure cauldron should God abandon you your comfort zones would evaporate, you would be systematically worn down and you would quickly feel isolated and alone.  It is God that “girds us with strength” because we don’t have enough and “makes our way perfect” because life often isn’t (Psalm 18:32). 

 In Mark 6: 36 – 37 Jesus deliberately challenges the disciples as to their ability to feed the 5000 men.  He knows that what they have got is pitifully inadequate but he didn’t ask the question to embarrass them.  Our Lord Jesus Christ did not intend to embitter His disciples with failure but empower them with success.  Jesus wanted to prove that when your weaknesses are exposed in following God’s will you are in fact only a step of obedience away from seeing God’s power revealed. 

Don’t get bitter or angry that you fall short lift your hands to heaven and accept that the battle is His (1 Samuel 17:47). Play your part praying and believing (Mark 11:24) and He will do His part and, “…gird you with strength and make your way perfect” (Psalm 18:32).