Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength,—Psalm 8:2a
There is not much weaker or more helpless than a newborn baby, but the same God that can ordain strength out of the mouths of a nursing infant can be my strength and my support in my own weakness. He can use ME, weak as I am, to display His glory!
Lord...Thank you for my weakness because it reminds me of who I am and who You are. It keeps me from living MY life in MY strength. It helps me REMEMBER to look up to where my true help comes and live the life You have graciously and mercifully laid out for me. Because Your grace is sufficient, the backdrop of my life will display Your strength and silence my (Your) enemies. Thank you for the heavens because they remind me that I am small and You are infinite. I say with the Psalmist
“What is man that You are mindful of him? And the son of man that You visit him?”
YOU! visit me! You dwell in me! I can revel in my smallness, my brokenness, my dependence and my weakness because in and through it all You ordain strength. Your strength is made perfect in my weakness. How wonderful to know that I don’t have to be strong. You didn’t make me to be strong...You made me to depend on You...to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, Your Son. I am a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for my Master, prepared for every good work. I can rest knowing that Your grace is sufficient. I will, therefore, most gladly BOAST in my infirmities, that Your power may rest upon me. I will take PLEASURE in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong! Undertake for me, Father!
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."— 1 Cor 1:27-31
