When I am weak...

Our Saviour always goes before us in our sufferings.  He too, despised and rejected, so intimately He knows our griefs and our sorrows.  And He, in His great compassion, mercy and tenderness offers to carry these dark sorrowings for us.

I am filled with longing that the hurt in our family will not overtake us, that the pain between child and parents will not rear its head.  That the Holy Spirit's presence will comfort and that Warrior Angels will surround our home and our hearts. May the shed blood of our passionate Christ flow protection and healing for all in our family.

Our fight is never against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers in unseen places.  Our enemy is not others or family members who may wound us, our Enemy is the Father of Lies, whose sole goal it is to destroy and steal and kill all the love between whomever he can harass.  The Enemy would take our lives and the lives of those whom we love if he could, and if he cannot do that, he would love to make us thoroughly miserable.  

But God.

But GOD.  He goes before us and behind us.  He does not promise no evil will befall us, but He does promise strength for each day, "...and as your day, so shall  your strength, security and rest be...Deut . 33:25 AMP

He reminds us that - " These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."  John 16:33, NASB.   

This courage, our medicine, we take with the strength and grace He promises us in abundance.  And when we feel we are at our weakest and have no strength at all to carry on, this is when we know He can shine through us wholly and truly for " For when I am weak, then I am strong. " 2 Cor.12:10b NIV

His strength - "...made perfect in weakness..." 2 Cor. 12:9 NIV  

It is counter-intuitive, I know, but so true nevertheless.  It is an upside-down Kingdom, but within its seeming confines we find, oddly enough, freedom.  Freedom from fakery. We do not have to pretend that we have it all together.  We know we do not have it all together - so we can freely be who we are, and allow Christ to do the work of molding us, working in us and through us to accomplish His sovereign and mysterious purposes. 

This mess I am - this hurt I feel, the anguish I writhe in, this confusion that sometime muddies my mind - He accepts - me, you, just as we are...  He loves us, absolutely, completely, eternally.

So we take a deep breath, and carry on...knowing that He carries us.  

Always and forever.