YOUR GREATEST WANESS

GOD'S GIFT OF WEAKNESS Did you ever stop And think That maybe your greatest weakness Is also YOUR GREATEST STRENGTH Maybe the thing That gives you The GREATEST perspective In this life And that by LEARNING from our weakness That maybe we can HELP OTHERS -Actually TEACH OTHERS How to avoid LIFE'S greatest traps The things that Take most people down I KNOW That that was the case With Saint Paul “IF I must boast I will boast\ Of the things That SHOW my weakness” 2 Corinthians 11:30 “I will rather BOAST most gladly Of my weaknesses In order That the POWER of Christ May dwell with me” 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul expresses What his own experiences Taught him NATURAL weakness Doesn't stop God In fact The opposite is true The more imperfect That we are The GREATER the work God can do through us How about that For a paradox The greatest weakness That you have in life IS ALSO your greatest strength I want to ECHO The above thought And the words And teachings of Paul WHEN I came So close to death WHEN I was 22 And when the illness Became chronic Like Saint Paul I became TOTALLY DEPENDENT on God I could no longer Run five miles a day Or lift weights Like I once could But over time I learned TO RELY ON GOD And now—today MY STRENGTH Is totally dependent on him “In the SAME WAY- The SPIRIT HELPS US-in our weakness We do NOT KNOW What we ought to pray for But the spirit himself INTERCEDES for us Through wordless groans” Romans 8:26 I learned how PRECIOUS life is And NOT to throw it away Or let anyone-or anything Take it from you It is a GIFT FROM GOD NOT to be Taken for granted So take it From the GREAT SAINT PAUL And take it From me BOTH-humble servants-of the Lord In our weakness GOD'S LOVE can be MOST POWERFULLY SHOWN To a world That is STARVING for love Dear Lord-WE humbly pray USE our weakness To FILL the world WITH YOUR LOVE Robert P. Wallman 6-27-15 INSPIRED by an article in Living Faith Magazine by Amy Welborn