Upper Loft Meditation - 2 Corinthians 12

My grace is enough; it’s all you need.
My strength comes into its own in your weakness.
(2 Corinthians 12:9 MSG)

Last week I wrote about how overwhelmed many of us are in our daily lives, but how UNDERwhelmed we are when it comes to God. Reflecting on this understanding, we need to come to the realization that there will never be enough time in this day, the next day or all your days to accomplish everything. Never enough money or workers or prayer breakthroughs or miracles or revivals or impact or strength or wisdom or vision, to name a few - at least not from where we are standing.

Yet we do know what Scripture says… we do know enough of how God works to know that God knows — and he tells Paul that “My strength is enough; it’s all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness.”

Paul — has weakness?

Yes, like all of us, even Paul had weakness. And this hope he had in God’s sufficiency should be the message emblazoned on the banner that each of us hoists high. “Once I hear that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size - abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.” (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

When we become overwhelmed with our mounting to-do lists, appointments and concerns with life, ask God to show you his strength so that we all might be overwhelmed by God’s grace and mercy in our daily life.