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“I’m going to party like it’s 1999.” Sans partying, I remember when 1999 had clairvoyant air about it. Move over, Superman, TIME is faster than a speeding bullet. It’s true. Days before the clock strikes midnight this new year’s eve, all around me women are posting their “Word for the year.” I’m not a fan of following the crowd, I blame my innate rebellious bend, but this year the Lord keeps nudging me to pray about a word He wants me to have as my- our- own. Rebelliousness in check and blinders on as not to invite anyone’s thought for me except for the Lord’s, and I pray for a word.
God is faithful.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 12: 9-10
And so it is. Do you see it too? Grace! Nope. Power? Strong? Strength? Nope. Nope. Nope. Weakness? Yep, weakness.
Who chooses WEAKNESS as their word for the year? sigh.
I’m not sure how this is going to go, but I do know a few things for sure. It IS from the Lord, for me, for my good and His glory, this new year. It IS true of me .In so many ways, I am weak, and I know it. I need God’s power in my life,“My power is perfected (how?) in weakness.” It’s time for me to boast more gladly (a superlative emphasizing an action done with full gladness-no regret or reservation) in my weakness, so that the power of Christ will rest on me. Therefore, I pray forward and trust the Lord in this year: in my weakness I will be strong.
I have to laugh. Weakness, God? It’s only right I would get a word to share that seems to swim upstream while the world screams strength and power to women. I’m good with it, though, because it’s what the Lord wants. Friends, really, we’re all weak, aren’t we?
Father God, I need you. I am weak; it is only through You my weakness can be made strong. I come to You and ask you show me how to be glad in what ordinarily frustrates and crumbles me. Come, Father, and rest Your power on my life. Show me my weakness. Empower me with gladness therein. Strengthen me, Oh Lord that where I am weak I will be made strong.
Did you choose a word for the year? Please share with me, I really would love to hear your choice and why.
