crippled

the other day God was weighing a friend of mine on my heart, and as i began praying for him, i was reminded...

my friend can't use his legs fully because he is physically crippled, but every time i think of him, i don't think of someone crippled...

i think of a passionate man of God whose compassion, kindness, and mercy inspires and challenges me. it would seem that in my friends weakness, He is made greater. and not just in spite of it, but because of it...

and i began reflecting on my own weaknesses. i'm a relational novice, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. Gods wisdom and grace are apparent in many aspects of my life, but in this area i'm crippled.

and i've seen that not just in spite of my weakness, but because of it, He is made greater. that He has using my ignorance to draw me closer to Him.

so i pray that we would see Him magnified and glorified through crippled people. people like you and me...

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. that is why, for Christ's sake, i delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. for when i am weak, then i am strong.
2 Cor 12:9-10

but God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him.
1 Cor 1:26-29

He must increase, i must decrease.
John 3:30