Most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that
the power of Christ may rest upon me. When I am weak, I am strong. That well-known
scripture from 2 Cor. 12 has new meaning today.
I thought that infirmities were simply weaknesses. I looked at
the definition and found an interesting thing; infirmities include failures! Infirmity; malady, disease; a personal
failing; weak of mind, will, or character; irresolute, vacillating; not stable.
Though I have experienced all of those, I never could get past my hundreds of
failures. I felt I let Him down more than anyone or anything. And I kept doing
the same drunken thing night after night, day after day. BUT He PAID for my
failures and now He says, Your failures are MINE. You are done
with them. I own them. I bought them. They are no longer yours. Those
failures and weaknesses become HIS story. HIS business. HIS work of glorious
rescue, no longer my failing. No wonder the other part of that verse says, My
grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness.
The nature of infirmity is as far from God’s character as it
could be. And yet, He owns them. He overcomes in a powerful way. Our surrender
often brings a one hundred eighty degree turn around. We are His witnesses. The weak become super-hero
strong. The vacillating become faithful to His purposes. There is no way to
explain it away or disprove the miracle. Here we are sober, in our right mind,
forgiven, standing against evil, sitting with Christ in heavenly places. And
this is only the beginning!
