"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 about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
~ 2 Cor. 12:9
My mom would say that you don't need the grace to eat poop on a stick until you need to eat poop on a stick. A little graphic, but it gets the point across. She wasn't one for messing around. (That's where I get it). We don't think we can handle a specific situation, and we probably couldn't until we are smack in the middle of it and God's grace is there!
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was only through God's grace and strength that I made it through my mom's unexpected passing, or Dean with his sister dying of cancer, or the girls in NICU or the numerous other circumstances that we have walked through.
The thing I found about God's grace is that I wasn't aware of it at first. You do what needs to be done, you put one foot in front of the other and one day you realize that you are surviving. People wonder how you are functioning and then it hits you ~ this is what grace looks like, feels like. Then the peace knowing you are not alone settles around you and you keep walking in the hand of your God.
That's what I have been thinking of these few days and also about how the people at the end of Hebrews 11 got through what they went through. (I told you we would finish it) ;)
In verses 35b-37: it tells of other believers who didn't fare as well as the ones in the previous verses. These were tortured...made fun of, flogged, chained, stoned, sawed in two, killed with swords, mistreated and left wandering. It's felt like I've had a few of those days.
I know that when I read Hebrews 11, I want to be in the first group! I also know that if I am really faced with anything from the second group, I can rely on God's grace. It is overwhelming to think of those things being a reality, but I don't have the grace for that yet. I don't need it yet.
The chapter ends with vs.39-40: "None of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours."
It's just not all about us!! We each need to walk out what God has called us to, not comparing if promises were received or not. That you would rather have another person's walk or glad that you don't have to walk through what they are. Whatever God calls us to, His grace will be there. We can walk out our stories for Him and His Kingdom, because of Him and His grace.
I pray that you will know, deep in your heart, that God's grace will be there for you in whatever He asks you to walk through.
Have a wonderful weekend!!
All my love ~
Jodi xoxo
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