"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor.12:9

Suffice, sufficiency: to be enough, to meet the needs of.

Last sunday I picked up an application for a job with the summer day camp at my church. one of the questions is "Describe your current relationship with the Lord. What is God currently teaching you?" wow. ummm... okay..... so i've spent this past week trying to figure that one out. and put it into words. What is He teaching me? what am i struggling with? what's really going on in my life? not just with school and homework, but with my life. isn't this an excellent question to ask yourself every once in awhile?

you know, with every little thing in my life that i am learning, that i'm struggling with, that i am enjoying, that i'm worrying over... "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness". i don't know that i could go as far as paul in saying that "for when i am weak, then i am strong." (v.10) ....i'm still trying to figure that one out. But when i am weak, i know that my Lord is strong and His grace is all that matters in life.

i'm a worrier. it's like a pasttime for me. and i hate it. but i've been working on this and i have to say that i'm worrying a whole lot less. with a lot of prayer and 'giving it up to God'. but if you're a worrier, you know what it's like. it's not rational. it's not that i'm scared and it's not that i'm not trusting in God. but what happens is that my thoughts (this week for example, it was 2 exams, a case study, a poster, and a self-evaluation) cycle through my brain and keep reminding me of what i still have to do. like i'll be studying for one exam, and suddenly i'll remember that i have this other project to work on, and that reminds me of the rest of the stuff on the list....
The reason i'm saying this is because even through these times.... "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." mmmm. that's reassuring.

You know what else is really neat? That we're children of God. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called chlidren of God! And that is what we are!" (I John 3:1)

Indeed, that is what we are.