by Dona Hake
I want to share with you about how powerful it is for us to totally entrust ourselves to God. He desires that we commit our lives into His care. Psalm 23:1 David stated, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” As we look to Him for all our needs and concerns, we will lack for nothing. As we entrust ourselves to Him, He promises to be our all whether all is well or all is falling apart. He is our strength when we are weak, and He is our guide when we cannot see because of the trial we are walking through. Paul understood a perfect strength in his time of weakness and this is what he had to say about it…
2 Corinthians 12:10
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I
strong.”
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I
strong.”
Paul experienced a strength that did not proceed from his human strength but by the power of the Living God! Have you ever had a time where your human strength and emotions had come to a place of weakness, and suddenly God infused you with fresh strength in your inner man, and you received direction and strong focus. Just as God’s peace is able to surpass our understanding, there will be times that His strength, wisdom, and focus can permeate us, and it is totally beyond what we have ever known. It is above and beyond what we expected as we trusted in His loving care!
I encourage your heart today to know this…as you entrust yourself to Him, you are in a perfect place! As we abide and dwell in that place of trusting in Him that we will experience great and wonderful things that are truly a testimony of God’s wonderful work within us. Serving God is so exciting isn’t it?