Feeling Weak?
“And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
How are you feeling today - Are you feeling weak in yourself?
Well, I tell you what, when we are feeling weak that is when God is strong in us. The dangerous place for the Christian is when he thinks that he has arrived and he thinks, “I can do it my way.”
Then Jesus stands back and says: “Okay if you want to do it your way, do it your way.” But remember,
Not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord of Hosts.” Zechariah 4:6.
Three of the greatest Christian hymns that have ever been written were written by men when they were in their most vulnerable and weakest moments in their lives. The first one is: “It is well with my soul.”
Horatio Spafford had sent his wife and his children ahead of him, across to the UK - the ship perished in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and all four of his daughters were drowned. He caught the next ship and he asked the captain: “When I go over that spot, when you go over that very place where the ship went down, please let me know.”
The captain came to him in the middle of the night and said, “This is where the ship, that your daughters and your wife were travelling on, went down.” He sat down and wrote that hymn - 'It Is Well With My Soul.'
The second one is a beautiful hymn written by a blind preacher, the Scottish George Matheson. When he was in his twenties, he was told by the doctor, “You will go blind.” His fiancé, when she heard about it, said: “I cannot live my life with a blind man.” and she left him. He was destitute. His young sister came to his assistance and she became his eyes. She helped him but she fell in love. She found a lovely young man and on the night of her wedding, George Matheson was sitting in the corner, on a chair when they were making the marriage preparations. He realized that the very person who was his eyes was leaving him and he wrote that beautiful hymn: “Oh love that will not let me go, I hide myself in Thee.”
The last hymn, Amazing Grace - everyone knows that hymn... Probably the most famous hymn of all time. Who was it written by? It was written by the captain of a slave ship - A more detestable type of employment, no one could think of. When that man realized what he had done, what he was part of, he wrote that beautiful hymn:
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound in a believer’s ear, I once was lost but now I am found, I was blind, but now I see.”
Today, you might be feeling vulnerable, you might be feeling weak. Call upon the Lord and this could be your finest moment.
God bless you.