Grace is Suficient

Okay, I have a confession to make. I am a worrier. In my past I would worry about everything and I mean everything. In fact I was such a worrier that I would try to plan my life out to the next decade. I'm not talking about goals and how to reach those goals. I'm talking about trying to actually plan how things would go months in advance. I would even plan how conversations would go. I would make up what I would say and then how the person would respond. Whenever there was an event to plan for I would plan it down to the last detail. You would think this would turn out great because it was so nicely and perfectly organized. But there was one problem. As you know, life doesn't always go the way we want it to. Plans change, kids get sick, others can't be there because of their own busy schedule, the person didn't respond in the way I thought they would and my least favorite of all-the weather would not cooperate. The thing was though, there was always a positve side but I couldn't see it because my plan did not work out the way it was supposed to--so--everything was ruined and I felt like a failure. I wanted to be perfect but I failed miserably.

It's hard to be perfect when you are a young mother, working a full time job, trying to keep up a house, wanting to be special to your husband, having bills and laundry piling up around your head and trying to keep up with your friends. Unfortunately, for me, all this led to clinical depresson. Medicine helped raise serotonin levels and counseling helped me see the issues and how to help myself. But that was not enough. Having God in my life was the changing force. He led me to this verse that I come back to over and over.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in 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 Corinthians 12:9-10

Friends, we don't have to be perfect-in fact we never will. Because of sin in the world none of us will meet the standard- all will fall short. So, when you are feeling that pressure of this world and the need to do it all by yourself, remember that your weakness is perfect for him to show his power! Blessings on your day, my friends!!

Cherrie